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Latitude: 57.0402 / 57°2'24"N
Longitude: -3.2313 / 3°13'52"W
OS Eastings: 325381
OS Northings: 795023
OS Grid: NO253950
Mapcode National: GBR W6.BK4Z
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.B9JQ
Plus Code: 9C9R2QR9+3F
Entry Name: Shell Drinking Fountain In Sunken Garden By Western Parterre, Balmoral Castle
Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, Shell Drinking Fountain in Sunken Garden by Western Parterre
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400421
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51489
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400421
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Drinking fountain
Circa 1855. Granite ashlar drinking fountain comprised of shell basin with panelled back and shell pediment, sited against W wall of sunken garden, to W of Castle.
A Group with Balmoral Castle, Chamois Deer Statue, Putto Fountain on Eastern Parterre, Roe Deer Statue and the Statue of Florentine Boar.
One of four drinking fountains around the Castle, the others being found by cricket ground, at Craig Gowan (Memorial to Sir Thomas Mydleton Biddulph), and by East Lodge (King Edward VII Memorial bench). An important component of the castle's immediate foreground.
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