Drinking Fountain

CAMDEN

TQ2785NW SOUTH END GREEN 798-1/28/1443 Drinking Fountain 26/05/92

GV II

Drinking fountain. 1880. By JH Evins. For Miss Crump of Hereford House, Hampstead in memory of William Warburton Pearce and of her uncle JB Chamberlain; built by J Holland of Northwich, Cheshire. Grey Cornish and Rubislaw granite, pink Peterhead granite and Mansfield sandstone. Early English Gothic Revival style in the form of a baptismal font. Stepped octagonal base to octagonal plinth, each facet having alternating a block step or round-arched animal drinking bowl niche. Above, round-arched niches with lion mask and foliate spouts have bowls projecting in a V-shape onto the plinth. Rising from the arches, columns with enriched capitals supporting crocketed and finialed gabled arcading with date and religious inscriptions forming a canopy; fountain beneath has cast-iron mask and foliar patterned bowl. Rising from the centre of the canopy, an octagonal drum with battered sides and small gabled canopy supported on columns surmounted by a patterned wrought-iron finial; drum facets and gables with roundels containing quatrefoils.

Listing NGR: TQ2728685521