Memorial Drinking Fountain Opposite Main Entrance To Birkenhead Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Monument.

Memorial Drinking Fountain Opposite Main Entrance To Birkenhead Park

WRENN ID: grim-alcove-finch
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Wirral
Country: England
Date first listed: 28 March 1974
Type: Monument
Source: Historic England listing

Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3189 BIRKENHEAD PARK 789-1/8/23 Memorial Drinking Fountain opposite 28/03/74 Main Entrance to Birkenhead Park

GV II

Drinking fountain in the form of an obelisk. Dated 1860. Polished granite. Obelisk raised up steps on a pedimented plinth. Inscription on the plinth reads "Erected by public subscription to the memory of the late John Somerville Jackson, magistrate d. June 8 1860". Small projecting fountain basins on two sides now mutilated.

Listing NGR: SJ3124689055

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