Building record 2655/1/0 - Norton Water Tower & Pumping Station

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56013 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

A Water Tower constructed in 1892 red sandstone, A cylindrical base of red sandstone is surmounted by a plain ashlar cylinder with bases for 10 pilasters. The pilasters rise to a frieze and frame high rusticated semi-circular headed opening with keystones. The large openings are closed midway by ashlar screens with two narrow arched openings. The frieze has a Latin inscription and the dentil cornice is surmounted by an iron tank with triglyphs between pilasters with arched sinkings. There are decorative shell upstands to the rim of the tank. Access to the tower is via a double door with six raised and fielded panels in an opening framed in stone with an elaborate stone pediment.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

Linked to the Severn-Vyrnwy Aqueduct. A small structure/building, shown on the Ordnance Survey 3rd Edition 25" map, survives within the modern complex. Now Tower Cottage (3)

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Land Line and Master Map Vector Maps (Maps and Plans). SCH4491.

Also the site of a twentieth century pumping station (3).so the site of a twentieth century pumping station