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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503981

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)