Queens Park Drinking Fountain
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Location
| Street: | West Drive |
| Town: | Brighton |
| Parish: | Brighton |
| Council: | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| County: | East Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN2 |
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| Object setting: | Public Park |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | In Queens Park, to the west of the Clock Tower near the dog walk |
| In the AZ book: | East Sussex |
| Page: | 132 |
| Grid reference: | D8 |
| 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. | |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Brighton Borough Council |
| Installation date: | 1893 |
| Unveiling date: | 1893 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| Object listing: | Grade II: of special interest warranting every effort to preserve them |
| Description: | 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. |
| Inscription: | BOROUGH OF BRIGHTON THIS PARK WAS OPENED AND DEDICATED TO THE FREE USE OF THE PUBLIC FOR EVER ON THE 10TH AUGUST 1892, BY THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS OF THE BOROUGH, ALDERMAN JOSEPH EWART M.D. AND MISS EWART FRANCIS J. TILLSTONE, TOWN CLERK Inscribed granite plaque, south face: BOROUGH OF BRIGHTON RECREATION GROUND COMMITTEE 1891-2 ALDERMAN JOSEPH EWART M.D. MAYOR COUNCILLOR EDWARD BROADBRIDGE, CHAIRMAN ALDERMAN ABBEY ALDERMAN MOON '' BOTTING COUNCILLOR BERRY '' DAVEY '' BOOTH '' HAWKES '' DEWE '' MANWARING '' LOWTHER '' MARTIN SAUNDERS FRANCES J.C. MAY GEORGE WARD BROUGH ENGINEER & SURVEYOR HEAD-GARDENER Inscribed granite plaque, north face: BOROUGH OF BRIGHTON THIS FOUNTAIN WAS ERECTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH TO COMMEMORATE THE GIFT OF ''QUEENS PARK'' BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE RACE STAND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BRIGHTON A.D.1893 JOSEPH EWART M.D. MAYOR Inscribed granite plaque, east face: BOROUGH OF BRIGHTON THIS PARK WAS CONSTRUCTED AT A COST OF £13,500 AND PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF BRIGHTON BY ALDERMAN HENRY ABBEY, ALDERMAN JOHN BRIDGEN, J.P., ALDERMAN SAMUEL RIDLEY J.P. AND WILLIAM SEYMOUR, BOROUGH SQUIRE. TRUSTEES OF THE BRIGHTON RACE STAND, A.D.1891 SAMUEL HENRY SOPER, MAYOR |
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Classification
| Categories: | Free Standing, Commemorative, Architectural, Functional |
| Object type1: | Fountain |
| Object subtype1: | Drinking Fountain |
| Object type2: | Building |
| Object subtype1: | Drinking Fountain |
| Subject type1: | Non-figurative |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Drinking fountain |
| Material: | Sandstone, terracotta and pink granite |
| Height (cm): | 430 |
| Width (cm): | 265 |
| Depth (cm): | 265 |
| Part 2: | Octagonal stepped (3) base |
| Material: | Grey granite |
| Height (cm): | 42 |
| Width (cm): | 535 |
| Depth (cm): | 535 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Fair |
| Risk assessment: | At risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Structural |
| Condition 1: | Broken or missing parts |
| Condition 2: | Cracks, splits, breaks, holes |
| More details: | All the four drinking bowls and spouts have been removed. All stonework eroded and cracked. Some cracks to the terracotta on all sides. |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 01/02/2008 |
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History
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References
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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