Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain. 2 related planning applications.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- endless-turret-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ISLINGTON
TQ3281NE FINSBURY SQUARE 635-1/79/1020 Drinking Fountain
GV II
Drinking fountain. 1899. By J. Whitehead and Sons for Thomas and Walter Smith. Marble and granite on stone plinth. Mannerist style. Square plan with basins each side and with piers supporting elaborately decorated pyramidal roof with open circular lucarnes. The whole is covered with fine and elaborate marble carving. The piers which are above the basin stage are formed of grouped straight and canted pilasters in granite and inbetween are arches beneath which hang open strapwork. J. Whitehead and Sons were the leading commercial masons of the period and the fountain was given by the patrons who were of T. Smith and Co. in memory of their mother Martha Smith (1826-1898). (Davies P: Troughs and Drinking Fountains: 1989-: P 80).
Listing NGR: TQ3288881918
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