Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3281NE FINSBURY SQUARE
635-1/79/1020 Drinking Fountain

GV II

Drinking fountain. 1899. By J. Whitehead and Sons for Thomas
and Walter Smith. Marble and granite on stone plinth.
Mannerist style. Square plan with basins each side and with
piers supporting elaborately decorated pyramidal roof with
open circular lucarnes. The whole is covered with fine and
elaborate marble carving. The piers which are above the basin
stage are formed of grouped straight and canted pilasters in
granite and inbetween are arches beneath which hang open
strapwork. J. Whitehead and Sons were the leading commercial
masons of the period and the fountain was given by the patrons
who were of T. Smith and Co. in memory of their mother Martha
Smith (1826-1898).
(Davies P: Troughs and Drinking Fountains: 1989-: P 80).

Listing NGR: TQ3288881918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084181

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)