Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338
669-1/1/285
01/11/72

MARKET PLACE
Drinking Fountain

GV
II

Ornamental drinking fountain in centre of square. 1862.
Designed by J Bentley (Westminster Cathedral) to commemorate
marriage of Edward, Prince of Wales. Purchased by G Stacey
Gibson and exhibited at the Imperial Exhibition. In
contrasting stone with spouts and bowl on E and W faces.
Ascending from essentially cruciform base of red sandstone
with stepped podium. Niche on N and S sides, S side contains
animals' drinking bowl. White limestone stage with
semicircular bowls in grey marble. Then, upper ornamental
stages in oolitic limestone with green and red brecciated
marble shafts, also inlaid work in marble and glass.
Crenellated cornice with supporting corner shafts and
corbel-table, then, surmounting gabled trefoiled niches with
clustered corner shafts to each face containing Biblical
figure sculpture with water or building themes. Above, stages
reduce in 2 registers of castellated units with corner shafts
supporting angle turrets, upper one has marble roundel with
coloured marble ball pattern (in Venetian style) on each face,
iron finial passes through iron circlet with glass bead
ornamentation.
(White M: Saffron Walden's History: Saffron Walden: 1991-:
134).

Listing NGR: TL5387138525

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490760

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)