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Latitude: 56.7144 / 56°42'51"N
Longitude: -2.4619 / 2°27'42"W
OS Eastings: 371825
OS Northings: 758178
OS Grid: NO718581
Mapcode National: GBR VY.F282
Mapcode Global: WH8RK.4HYH
Plus Code: 9C8VPG7Q+Q7
Entry Name: Monument And Drinking Fountain, Mid Links, Montrose
Listing Name: Mid Links, Monument and Drinking-Fountain
Listing Date: 30 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393454
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46223
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393454
Location: Montrose
County: Angus
Town: Montrose
Electoral Ward: Montrose and District
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Drinking fountain Monument
1905? Monument and drinking fountain in polished pink and grey granites. 4 circular water basins on circular shafts with square bases radiating off central circular hub with projecting blocks each with bronze lion spout. Columns above supporting pointed-arch canopy with tapering spirelet crown. 2-stage circular fountain beneath canopy. Pedestal inscribed "this portion of Mid Links was laid out at the expense of Wm. M. J. Paton 1905".
A good example of such municipal or public-spirited provision in the Victorian and Edwardian years. One of 3 pieces of civic sculpture on Mid Links, the others being the War Memorial amd a monument to Provost Scott.
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