The Conduit - The Parade, South Street, Sherborne - tap and basin

A walk around a rainy Sherborne in Dorset.

 

This was the Sunday that had heavy rain at the end of April 2012.

 

A few days after my visit The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the town as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visits to towns and cities around the country.

 

Sherborne was the nearest town to our holiday cottage in Dorset.

 

Sherborne is an abbey town.

 

This is the The Conduit on The Parade, South Street in Sherborne.

 

Grade I listed.

 

The Conduit (the Parade), Sherborne

 

CHEAP STREET

1.

1625

(South West Side)

The Conduit

(The Parade)

ST 6316 1/217 28.11.50.

I GV

2.

Originally the Conduit House which stood against the North range of the

Abbey Cloister. Early C16. Hexagonal stone structure with moulded string

and parapet coping. Buttresses at angles. Original 2-centred entrance

in west front; 2-centred window openings with perpendicular tracery in

other facets. Scheduled Ancient Monument.

 

No 88, The Conduit, No 90, Saints John Building form a group with Bow House,

The Cemetery Gate, The Abbey Gate House, No 2 including premises occupied

by Gilham Bros, No 3 including premises occupied by Gilham Bros, Church

Lane.

 

 

Listing NGR: ST6388816514

 

Tap and basin built into The Conduit.

Done