Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

SOUTH STRAND STREET, FOUNTAINLB45220

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
30/03/1998
Local Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Planning Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Burgh
Stranraer
NGR
NX 05939 60852
Coordinates
205939, 560852

Description

Walter Macfarlane & Co, 1897. Cast-iron drinking fountain. Stepped, stone platform; 4 fluted decorative columns supporting domed canopy; decorative finial; circular basin; gilded bird surmounts foliate stalk rising from basin. For inscriptions within rope-moulded roundel see below.

N ELEVATION: as above, with gilt relief bust of Queen Victoria.

S ELEVATION: as above, with burgh arms, Tutissima Statio.

W and E ELEVATIONS: as above, with inscription 'The pavement, keep dry. Erected by the town council in commemoration of Queen Victoria's record reign 1897'.

Statement of Special Interest

A good surviving example of a cast-iron water fountain & canopy by one of the leading cast-iron foundaries in Scotland during the 19th century. Walter Macfarlane & Co. The pierced dome section of the canopy would have been particularly difficult to cast.

The fountain originally occupied the natural site of a town cross, in the middle of George Street. It now holds a prominent siting near Stranraer Castle (see separate list description). It was erected by the Corporation to commemorate the record reign of Queen Victoria.

Statutory address previously given as George Street. List description updated 2008.

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey map, 1895 (not evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1908 (evident); Photograph (Stranraer Library/GWa31) circa 1897); Sir AN Agnew GUIDE TO WIGTOWNSHIRE (1928), p133; P Davies TROUGHS AND DRINKING FOUNTAINS (1989), p93; EP Dennison Torrie and R Coleman HISTORIC STRANRAER (1995), p48; J Gifford DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY (1996), p536.

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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