Gladstone Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1994. Vernacular dwelling.
Gladstone Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- solemn-screen-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1994
- Type
- Vernacular dwelling
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
3-sided stone fountain in municipal Renaissance style with a dedication plaque in the S face. Relief portraits of Gladstone and his wife in roundels, in W and E faces respectively. Swagged surrounds. Classical flaming urn finial. The upper half of each face has the inscription Drink ye... the water... of life respectively, under arched cornices. Base with moulded plinth and scrolled corners. Above these are, N, a sculpted, armed putto sitting astride a dolphin, and at the other corners griffins bearing the arms of the Glynnes and the Gladstones. Acanthas decoration to lower sections with central lozenges containing lion's heads.
The fountain is now disused.
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