Patrick Stirling Memorial Lamp and Drinking Fountain

Memorial lamp and drinking fountain, 1890, commissioned by the drivers and firemen of the Great Northern Railway (GNR).

MATERIALS: polished pink and grey granite on sandstone ashlar base.

DESCRIPTION: not inspected, information from other sources.

The drinking fountain and memorial lamp is 4.5 metres high. It stands on a shallow, octagonal ashlar step and high, octagonal chamfered base. The drinking fountain is a circular granite column on a moulded plinth with four projecting semi-circular drinking basins. Above the bowls are four inscribed plaques of grey granite with pink granite colonettes between with moulded capitals supporting a moulded cap.

The first panel bears the inscription: THIS / FOUNTAIN / WAS / PRESENTED TO / THE TOWN OF / DONCASTER / BY / THE ENGINEMEN / AND FIREMEN / EMPLOYED ON; second panel: THE / GREAT NORTHERN / RAILWAY, / IN / COMMEMORATION / OF THE 70TH / BIRTHDAY OF P. STIRLING, ESQ. / C.E. / LOCOMOTIVE; third panel: ENGINEER / TO THE COMPANY / TO MARK THE / RESPECT / AND ESTEEM / IN WHICH HE IS / HELD BY THEM / JUNE 29TH / 1890; fourth panel: OPENED / BY / MRS STIRLING / AUGUST 11TH / J.F. CLARK, ESQ. / MAYOR. Set on the moulded cap is a pinnacle finial with a fluted stem and moulded plinth. The finial is surmounted by a replica lamp with Doncaster’s lion at its top.