Village pumps
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Location
| Street: | High Street |
| Town: | Steyning |
| Parish: | Steyning |
| Council: | Horsham District Council |
| County: | West Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN44 |
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| Object setting: | Road or Wayside |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Next to the Springwells Hotel |
| Page: | 130 |
| Grid reference: | A3 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
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General Information
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Steyning Parish Council |
| Object listing: | Grade II: of special interest warranting every effort to preserve them |
| Description: | Cast iron pump on a stone base of two steps, with a lower pump below placed above a stone trough. |
| Inscription: | RESTORED BY THE STEYNING SOCIETY IN 1970 A.D. |
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Classification
| Categories: | Roadside / Wayside, Functional |
| Object type1: | Fountain |
| Object subtype1: | Pump |
| Subject type1: | Non-figurative |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Base of large pump |
| Material: | Stone with top slabs |
| Height (cm): | 92 |
| Width (cm): | 200 |
| Depth (cm): | 89 |
| Part 2: | Small pump |
| Material: | Cast iron |
| Height (cm): | 120 |
| Width (cm): | 35 |
| Depth (cm): | 22 |
| Part 3: | Large pump |
| Material: | Cast iron |
| Height (cm): | 160 |
| Width (cm): | 50 |
| Depth (cm): | 20 |
| Part 4: | Trough of small pump |
| Material: | Stone |
| Height (cm): | 40 |
| Width (cm): | 56 |
| Depth (cm): | 90 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Surface |
| Condition 1: | Corrosion, deterioration |
| Condition 2: | Biological growth |
| Condition 3: | Surface spalling, crumbling |
| Condition 4: | Previous treatments |
| More details: | Biological growth to top surfaces of base and trough. Both pumps rusted under the black paint and the rust is seeping through in areas. On both bases there is evidence of previous repairs (restored in 1970). The pointing on the large pump base is crumbling. |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 11/12/2007 |
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History
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References
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
 Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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