Description

CAMDEN

TQ2785NW SOUTH END GREEN
798-1/28/1443 Drinking Fountain
26/05/92

GV II

Drinking fountain. 1880. By JH Evins. For Miss Crump of
Hereford House, Hampstead in memory of William Warburton
Pearce and of her uncle JB Chamberlain; built by J Holland of
Northwich, Cheshire. Grey Cornish and Rubislaw granite, pink
Peterhead granite and Mansfield sandstone. Early English
Gothic Revival style in the form of a baptismal font. Stepped
octagonal base to octagonal plinth, each facet having
alternating a block step or round-arched animal drinking bowl
niche. Above, round-arched niches with lion mask and foliate
spouts have bowls projecting in a V-shape onto the plinth.
Rising from the arches, columns with enriched capitals
supporting crocketed and finialed gabled arcading with date
and religious inscriptions forming a canopy; fountain beneath
has cast-iron mask and foliar patterned bowl. Rising from the
centre of the canopy, an octagonal drum with battered sides
and small gabled canopy supported on columns surmounted by a
patterned wrought-iron finial; drum facets and gables with
roundels containing quatrefoils.

Listing NGR: TQ2728685521

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086144

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)