Hitchman Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Fountain.

Hitchman Fountain

WRENN ID
north-brass-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Warwick
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
Fountain
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE JEPHSON GARDENS 1208-1/7/184 Hitchman Fountain 25/03/70

II

Fountain. Erected 1869. Designed by John Cundall. Millstone grit and red polished granite with sandstone ashlar and Coade stone dressings. Gothic Revival Early English style. Circular basin with low walls with cavetto moulding and roll-edged copings. Fountain base a quatrefoil with imposed square on plan, stepped. Then tooled plinths with pilasters with foliate caps to angles surmounted by pyramidal caps. From these flying buttresses abut centre, with base square on plan surmounted by cylindrical shaft, then further plinth square on plan surrounded by 4 columns with elaborate foliate capitals supporting quatrefoil basin with acroteria. 4 banded column clusters support smaller quatrefoil basin surmounted by pinnacle with finials. Inscribed: 'IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHMAN WHO DIED ... 1867'. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 59; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-).

Listing NGR: SP3189865580

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