Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain
Colville Memorial Fountain

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A small memorial drinking fountain with a circular basin. The inscribed tablet is set within a Gothic arch. Colville was a coal-fitter with a business in the Newcastle's Exchange buildings from 1879 to 1886.
Title

Colville Memorial Fountain

Date

1889

Medium

stone & granite

Measurements

H 210 x W 110 x D 60 cm

Accession number

NE2_SD_S005

Acquisition method

commissioned by Miss Caroline Sophia Russell Colvill

Work type

Water fountain, trough or pump

Owner

Newcastle City Council

Custodian

Newcastle City Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

22th August 1889

Access

at all times

Inscription description

on tablet above trough: THIS / FOUNTAIN / WAS PRESENTED TO THE / CITY OF NEWCASTLE / BY MISS CAROLINE / SOHIA / RUSSELL COLVILLE / IN LOVING REMEMBERENCE OF / HER BROTHER THE LATE / EDWIN DODD COLVILLE / WHO WAS FOR UPWARD […] / […] YEARS WELL AND HONOURABLY / [...]OWN IN NEWCASTLE / MAYOR / [...] MAYOR / W. D. STEPHENS, ESQ. / 1888 / IN AS MUCH AS YE DID IT UNTO / ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN / YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME MATT XXV 40

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Located at

Great North Road, Jesmond

NE2 3NH