Sunderland, Mowbray extension park, drinking fountain

HER Number:
4824

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Mowbray extension park, drinking fountain

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Fountain

Site Type: Specific:
Drinking Fountain

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
This drinking fountain in the north extension of Mowbray Park at the north end of Central Avenue is dated 1878. It carries the cast-iron founder's plate, ‘Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock; for the Order of Oddfellows in memory of William Hall; gift to the Corporation of Sunderland’. A small domed canopy with elaborate foliage and 4 cusped arches on columns shelters a bollard-shaped drinking fountain. Above each arch is a motto - on the north and south: KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY, and NIL DESPERANDUM AUSPICE DEO 1878, (the borough's motto) with symbols of borough and of Oddfellows. On the east and west: AMICITIA AMOR ET VERITAS 1878. Additionally, on the east, IN MEMORY OF WM HALL PPGM OF THE SUNDERLAND DISTRICT INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, and on the west: PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION OF SUNDERLAND BY THE ODDFELLOWS NU. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3985

Northing:
5666

Grid Reference:
NZ39855666

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4824>> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest ;Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 44