Fountain In Princess Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. A Victorian Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Fountain In Princess Gardens
- WRENN ID
- silver-lantern-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Fountain
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TORQUAY
SX9163 PRINCESS GARDENS 885-1/17/218 Fountain in Princess Gardens 10/01/75 (Formerly Listed as: VAUGHAN ROAD Fountain in Princess Gardens)
GV II
Fountain. c1894, contemporary with the laying out of the pleasure grounds. Cast-iron and stone. 3-tier fountain discharging into a round pool. Pool with a moulded edge with stylised foliage. Base of fountain tripartite with spouting dolphins ridden by trumpeting children. Central moulded column with countryside scenes in relief including squirrels, birds. Decorated iron brackets support the scalloped basin on top and storks decorate the cylinder that supports the top basin, decorated with a seated infant who holds a crowning basin like a parasol. HISTORY: Ellis records that H Young of the Torbay and Cumper's Hotels provided the fountain as a gift at a cost of about »150 on condition that the corporation provided a suitable basin for it. Attractively festive item of public park furniture and to a pattern produced by the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.380).
Listing NGR: SX9165563478
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