Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK 920-1/20/146 (North side) 10/11/78 Drinking fountain at north end of Central Avenue NZ 3986 5666 (Formerly Listed as: MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK Drinking fountain at north end of Central Avenue)

GV II

Drinking fountain in north extension of Mowbray Park . Dated 1878. Founder's plate Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock; for the Order of Oddfellows in memory of William Hall; gift to the Corporation of Sunderland. Cast-iron. Small domed canopy with elaborate foliage and 4 cusped arches on columns shelters bollard-shaped drinking fountain. Above each arch an escutcheon and motto. On N and S: KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY, and NIL DESPERANDUM AUSPICE DEO 1878, (the borough's motto) with symbols of borough and of Oddfellows. On E and W: AMICITIA AMOR ET VERITAS 1878 with on E, IN MEMORY OF WM HALL PPGM OF THE SUNDERLAND DISTRICT INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS and on W, PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION OF SUNDERLAND BY THE ODDFELLOWS NU.

Listing NGR: NZ3986056663

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