Fountain in Great Court Cambridge, England
Listed Building Data
Fountain in Great Court has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1331803
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 26 April 1950
- Name
- TRINITY COLLEGE, FOUNTAIN IN GREAT COURT
- Location
- TRINITY COLLEGE, FOUNTAIN IN GREAT COURT
- District
- Cambridge
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Grid Reference
- TL 44746 58636
- Easting
- 544746.3410
- Northing
- 258636.2470
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TRINITY COLLEGE 1. 942 Fountain in Great Court TL 4458 NE 3/299 26.4.50. I 2. Erected in 1602 and repaired in 1716. An outstanding example of the work of the date. Cliffe and Clipsham stone ashlar. Completely rebuilt by Robert Grumbold in 1716, and repaired at several later dates. The main basin has a plinth and solid panelled base from which spring Ionic columns supporting arches, an entablature then ribs crowned by a Royal lion with the Tudor arms. Within the main basin is a stone column supporting two smaller basins. The whole is highly worked and decorative. (RCHM).
Listing NGR: TL4474658636
