Commemorative Fountain In Queens Park

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SD83SW ORMEROD ROAD 906-1/3/106 (North side (off)) Commemorative fountain in Queen's Park

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Commemorative monument in the form of a fountain. Dated 1893. Commemorates the gift of land by Sir John Hardy Thursby, Bart. in 1888, for the making of Queen's Park which was opened in 1893. Sandstone ashlar, rendered brick and polished pink granite. Jacobean-Renaissance style. A wide circular bowl of sandstone ashlar (lined with rendered brick) with a moulded surround and octagonal piers at the cardinal points surmounted by ball finials; and a central sandstone dome carried on 4 pairs of polished granite Ionic colonnettes mounted on a square stone plinth: the plinth has panelled sides and panelled diagonal piers with a moulded cornice carried round, and the dome has a frieze which matches this, with a prominent moulded cornice carried round, and a large obelisk finial. The front and rear panels of the plinth have lettered bronze plaques commemorating the gift of the land and the opening of the park by the donor on 1 July 1893.

Listing NGR: SD8482233229