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Latitude: 52.2874 / 52°17'14"N
Longitude: -1.5338 / 1°32'1"W
OS Eastings: 431898
OS Northings: 265580
OS Grid: SP318655
Mapcode National: GBR 6NJ.H23
Mapcode Global: VHBXJ.CRHT
Plus Code: 9C4W7FP8+XF
Entry Name: Hitchman Fountain
Listing Date: 25 March 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1381322
English Heritage Legacy ID: 481682
ID on this website: 101381322
Location: Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV32
County: Warwickshire
District: Warwick
Civil Parish: Royal Leamington Spa
Built-Up Area: Royal Leamington Spa
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Leamington Priors All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
Tagged with: Fountain
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE JEPHSON GARDENS
1208-1/7/184 Hitchman Fountain
25/03/70
II
Fountain. Erected 1869. Designed by John Cundall. Millstone
grit and red polished granite with sandstone ashlar and Coade
stone dressings. Gothic Revival Early English style. Circular
basin with low walls with cavetto moulding and roll-edged
copings. Fountain base a quatrefoil with imposed square on
plan, stepped. Then tooled plinths with pilasters with foliate
caps to angles surmounted by pyramidal caps. From these flying
buttresses abut centre, with base square on plan surmounted by
cylindrical shaft, then further plinth square on plan
surrounded by 4 columns with elaborate foliate capitals
supporting quatrefoil basin with acroteria. 4 banded column
clusters support smaller quatrefoil basin surmounted by
pinnacle with finials. Inscribed: 'IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHMAN
WHO DIED ... 1867'.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 59; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire
County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal
Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-).
Listing NGR: SP3189865580
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