Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain Eros is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Fountain. 3 related planning applications.

Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain Eros

WRENN ID: watchful-threshold-vetch
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: Westminster
Country: England
Date first listed: 24 February 1958
Type: Fountain
Source: Historic England listing

Description

TQ 2980 NE 71/73

CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY CIRCUS, WI Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain "Eros"

24.2.58

GV I Memorial Fountain. 1892-93 by Alfred Gilbert commemorating the philanthropist Lord Shaftesbury. Bronze octagonal fountain on stepped platform surmounted by winged archer in aluminium representing the Angel of Christian Charity but always popularly identified as Eros. The sculpture of the fountain itself is of remarkable naturalistic proto-Art Nouveau invention, hence Pevsner's quotation "fishes of all kinds, and every class of molluscous and crustacean life, the crab, the lobster and such like".

Survey of London; Vol XIX. London Volume 1 N Pevsner

Listing NGR: TQ2955780644

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