Hitchman Fountain

Hitchman Fountain is a Grade II listed fountain located in Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa. It was erected in 1869 and designed by John Cundall. The fountain is made from millstone grit and red polished granite, featuring sandstone ashlar and Coade stone dressings, and is designed in the Gothic Revival Early English style.

The fountain has a circular basin with low walls that have cavetto moulding and roll-edged copings. The base of the fountain is quatrefoil in shape, with a square plan that is stepped. It features tooled plinths with pilasters that have foliate caps at the corners, topped with pyramidal caps. Flying buttresses support the center, which has a square base surmounted by a cylindrical shaft. This is further elevated by a square plinth surrounded by four columns with elaborate foliate capitals, supporting a quatrefoil basin with acroteria. Above this, four banded column clusters hold a smaller quatrefoil basin topped with a pinnacle and finials. The fountain is inscribed: 'IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHMAN WHO DIED ... 1867'.