Drinking Fountain Outside Underground Station is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1991. Drinking fountain. 4 related planning applications.
Drinking Fountain Outside Underground Station
- WRENN ID
- hidden-passage-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1991
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 2882 SE GREAT PORTLAND STREET
36/50 Drinking Fountain outside Underground Station
II
Drinking fountain. Late C19, cleaned and restored c1989. Provided by the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Grey granite. Circular pedestal with moulded base and top, having 2 projecting D-shaped basins surmounted by a central bronze urn with spouts above the basins. Pedestal flanked by rectangular granite standing blocks for children. An unusual Association design. Founded in 1859 the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association (Cattle Trough added 1867) provided free fresh water to many humans and beasts at a time when ale and spirits were easier to obtain than water and most supplies contaminated. The Christian association of water with purity of spirit led evangelical Victorians to become patrons of the Association which provided a catalogue of functional designs although some wealthy patrons used their own.
Listing NGR: TQ2887882175
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