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Drinking fountain
Key Words :- fountain
Address :- Old Street/Pitfield Street/Great Eastern Street, London, Greater London, EC2
Grid Ref :- TQ 33023 82519
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.525925 , Long -0.083875
Local Authority :- Hackney London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Middlesex
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No :- 1226614,
Description and History of Site:-
The fountain was moved a short distance to the south-east as part of a programme of street improvements overseen by Transport for London in 2002/3.
Designed by A Nicholson, a local stone merchant based nearby in Mark Lane, in 1880 of pink and grey polished granite with bronze fittings.
Upper plinth inscribed on two sides; 1876 METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS and VESTRY OF ST LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
Further inscriptions read (south side) GREAT EASTERN STREET OPENED BY THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS 1876
and (north) NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH ANYTHING; NEITHER HE THAT WATERETH BUT GOD THAT GIVE THE INCREASE (I Cor. 3:7).
Above this a tall Ionic column of polished red granite with sandstone capital and a ball finial in the form of an orb. Eight red granite bollards surround the erection. North face of upper plinth inscribed: 'This column erected by the Vestry of St Leonard, Shoreditch, 1880' and artist's name.
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Grid Ref :- TQ 33023 82519
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.525925 , Long -0.083875
Local Authority :- Hackney London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Middlesex
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No :- 1226614,
The fountain was moved a short distance to the south-east as part of a programme of street improvements overseen by Transport for London in 2002/3.
Designed by A Nicholson, a local stone merchant based nearby in Mark Lane, in 1880 of pink and grey polished granite with bronze fittings.
Upper plinth inscribed on two sides; 1876 METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS and VESTRY OF ST LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
Further inscriptions read (south side) GREAT EASTERN STREET OPENED BY THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS 1876
and (north) NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH ANYTHING; NEITHER HE THAT WATERETH BUT GOD THAT GIVE THE INCREASE (I Cor. 3:7).
Above this a tall Ionic column of polished red granite with sandstone capital and a ball finial in the form of an orb. Eight red granite bollards surround the erection. North face of upper plinth inscribed: 'This column erected by the Vestry of St Leonard, Shoreditch, 1880' and artist's name.
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