Moore Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Fountain.
Moore Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-ashlar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 2548 WIGTON MARKET PLACE (Centre of) Wigton
14/85 Moore Memorial Fountain
II
Drinking fountain memorial. 1872-3 by J.T. Knowles with panels by Thomas Woolner; inscribed THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY GEORGE MOORE OF WHITEHALL, HIGH SHERIFF OF CUMBERLAND AD 1872, IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS WIFE, ELIZA, WHO DIED ON THE 4TH OF DECEMBER, 1858. Polished Shap granite; aluminium bronze panels; gilt decoration. Square base with projecting fountain bowls on each face. Stepped plinth and square shaft, with panel on each face representing the Acts of Mercy, 340 separate castings by Messrs Hardman of Birmingham to designs by Woolner. Egg and tongue decorated cornice, under 4 pediments enclosing medallion busts of Mrs Moore also by Woolner. Pyramid spire with angle decorations and each face cut away in a foliated gilded pattern; ball and cross gilded bronze finial. Cost £12,000. See T.W. Carrick, History of Wigton, 1949, pp161-3.
Listing NGR: NY2549148386
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