Stowmarket Council School Memorial Drinking Fountain

The Stowmarket Council School Memorial Drinking Fountain is a large and highly decorative cast drinking fountain located inside the War Memorial Gates to the Recreation Ground on Finborough Road. The fountain features four bowls supported by a central pedestal, with a lion on each side. The pedestal and the exterior surfaces of the bowls are adorned with relief scenes, including ponds with water-lilies and other plants. The interiors of the bowls are scalloped. Rising from the intersection of the bowls is a tapering pedestal that supports an urn. Originally, the urn had four arms from which chains and drinking cups were suspended; however, the chains, cups, and two of the arms are now missing.

Each face of the pedestal is richly decorated with cast details, including strips of foliage along the edges, scrolls and shells from which water flowed in the lower sections, and images of swans and a heron on three sides. The fourth side features a dedicatory inscription that reads: "THIS DRINKING FOUNTAIN WAS PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF STOWMARKET BY THE CHILDREN OF THE ADJACENT SENIOR COUNCIL SCHOOL IN MEMORY OF THOSE OLD SCHOLARS WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18."