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Latitude: 54.9031 / 54°54'11"N
Longitude: -1.3799 / 1°22'47"W
OS Eastings: 439860
OS Northings: 556663
OS Grid: NZ398566
Mapcode National: GBR VCZ.MG
Mapcode Global: WHD5C.S121
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ3C+62
Entry Name: Drinking Fountain at North End of Central Avenue NZ 3986 5666
Listing Date: 10 November 1978
Last Amended: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208918
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391523
ID on this website: 101208918
Location: Mowbray Gardens, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Hendon
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Hendon
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Drinking fountain
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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