Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3204NW QUEEN'S PARK
577-1/35/712 Memorial Drinking Fountain, 60
metres north-east of The Lake

II

Memorial drinking fountain. Dated 1893. Grey granite base and
pink granite dado and socles; terracotta blocks and sandstone
dressings. Square in plan, with 8-sided corner piers; 2
stages. Free interpretation of Tudor style. Granite base of 3
steps. Each corner pier is panelled and covered with floral
tracery. Each face dominated by a segmental arch, subordered
and moulded, above which is sandstone acanthus cornice and
flared segmental pediment. The traceried piers continue above
this cornice terminating in 8-sided, onion-domed pinnacles. In
the centre of the roof rises a cupola of red sandstone moulded
with a variety of Tudor- and Elizabethan-period classical
mouldings. The basins, now gone, were originally set in
round-arched aedicules under the segmental arches. The
tympanum of this aedicule filled with floral scrolls and
shells. Inscriptions on a granite plaque above the former
location of each basin remain. That on the south-east face
reads: "Borough of Brighton Recreation Grounds Committee 1891.
Alderman Joseph Ewart, M. D., Mayor, Councillor Edward
Broadbridge, Chairman, Alermen Abbey, Botting, Davey, Hawles,
Mainwaring, Martin, Moon, Councillor Berry, Booth, Dewe,
Lowther, Saunder, Francis Je?, Borough Engineer and Surveyor,
George Ward, Head Gardener." On the south-west face: "Borough
of Brighton. This Park was opened and dedicated to the Free
Use of the Public Forever on 10th August, 1892 by the Mayor
and Mayoress of the Borough Alderman, Joseph Ewart, M. D., and
Miss Ewart. Francis J. Tillstone, Town Clerk." On the
north-west face: "Borough of Brighton. This Fountain was
erected by the Council of the Borough to Commemorate the Gift
of Queen's Park by the Trustees of the Race Stand for the
Benefit of the Inhabitants of Brighton. A.D.1893." On the
north-east face: "Borough of Brighton. Queen's Park. This Park
was constructed at a cost of L.13,500 and presented to the
Town of Brighton by Aldermen Henry Abbey, John Bridgen, J. P.
, Samuel Ridley, J. P., and William Seynour, Borough Squire.
Trustees of Brighton Race Stand, A.D. 1891, Samuel Henry Soper
Mayor."

Listing NGR: TQ3215504531

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660949

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