Neptune Fountain Approximately 100 Metres South West Of Main Entrance To Municipal Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1982. Fountain.
Neptune Fountain Approximately 100 Metres South West Of Main Entrance To Municipal Offices
- WRENN ID
- tall-flue-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1982
- Type
- Fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/764 (North West side) 08/01/82 Neptune Fountain approximately 100m SW of main entrance to Municipal Offices (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE Neptune Fountain about 100 yds SW from main entrance to Municipal Offices)
GV II
Fountain and statues. Inaugurated 1893. Designed by Joseph Hall, the Borough Engineer and executed by RL Boulton and Sons, Cheltenham. Portland stone, overpainted. Neptune drawn by 4 sea-horses, flanked by tritons blowing conches. Set on ranged oval base encircled by shallow steps leading to pool. Enclosed by stone balustrade with carved urns. Based on Rome's Trevi Fountain. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue connecting the Colonnade in the High Street to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel) (qv). (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 87,120).
Listing NGR: SO9469922208
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