Jubilee Drinking Fountain
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Location
| Street: | Chart Way |
| Town: | Horsham |
| Parish: | Horsham |
| Council: | Horsham District Council |
| County: | West Sussex |
| Postcode: | RH12 |
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| Object setting: | Road or Wayside |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Near the junction of Chart Way and North Street |
| In the AZ book: | West Sussex |
| Page: | 25 |
| Grid reference: | N9 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
| Previous location: | Carfax (resited to Chart Way in 1993) |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Public subscription. |
| Installation date: | 1897 |
| Unveiling date: | 1897 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Horsham District Council |
| Object listing: | Not listed |
| Description: | A polished granite drinking fountain and bowl surmounting a three stepped unpolished base. At the top of the fountain is a cast iron, armed post supporting a spherical glass lantern. The three water spouts are in bronze and of a floral design. There are inscriptions on the west and east faces of the fountain. The inscription on the west face (QEII) has been added with a different colour of granite. |
| Inscription: | IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SIXTIETH YEAR OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN A.D. 1897 West face, raised lead letters painted black: IN COMMEMORATION OF THE TWENTY FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II A.D. 1977 |
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Classification
| Categories: | Roadside / Wayside, Functional, Free Standing, Composite, Commemorative |
| Object type1: | Street furniture |
| Object subtype1: | Lamp |
| Object type2: | Fountain |
| Object subtype1: | Lamp |
| Subject type1: | Non-figurative |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Drinking fountain and bowl |
| Material: | Grey granite |
| Height (cm): | 210 |
| Width (cm): | 150 |
| Depth (cm): | 150 |
| Part 2: | Octagonal stepped (3) base |
| Material: | Grey granite |
| Height (cm): | 48 |
| Width (cm): | 340 |
| Depth (cm): | 340 |
| Part 3: | Lantern |
| Material: | Glass and metal |
| Height (cm): | 130 |
| Width (cm): | 60 |
| Depth (cm): | 60 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Surface |
| Condition 1: | Biological growth |
| Condition 2: | Previous treatments |
| More details: | Biological growth to the top and inside of the bowl. There is visible evidence of repair to the east face underneath the bowl and on the top step of the base. |
| Condition 2 of type: | Structural |
| Condition 1: | Broken or missing parts |
| More details: | The cups are missing and the glass door of the lantern also. The water fountain no longer works. |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 11/09/2007 |
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History
| History: | The fountain was removed from its original site in Carfax in 1947 as it was regarded a traffic hazard. It was stored for thirty years in a Council yard. In 1977 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of H.M. the Queen it was retrieved, restored and placed back in Carfax. This was through money raised by The Horsham Society, The Museum Society and public subscription. Further developments road began in 1993 and the fountain was moved to its present site in 1994. |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | 'Memorials, Monuments and Modern Memorabilia of Horsham' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Salt, Dennis. |
| Edition: | 2nd. |
| Publisher: | The Horsham Society. |
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| Title: | 'Horsham and District in Old Photographs' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Wales, Tony. |
| Publisher: | Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. Stroud. |
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
 Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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