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Decorative fluted columns supporting a decorative domed canopy with painted finial. It has a circular fountain on a pedestal in the centre. It is design number 31 from Walter McFarlane's Foundry catalogue. The fountain was relocated from the Market Place to Bull Croft Park, a meadow in the north west of the town, after being damaged by a lorry. In 1979 the Market Place was pedestrianised, and the fountain was returned to its original location.

Title

Drinking Fountain

Medium

cast iron & paint

Accession number

OX10_JR_S001

Acquisition method

commissioned by Alderman Hawkins

Work type

Water fountain, trough or pump

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

1885

Listing date

09/02/88

Access

at all times

Inscription description

KEEP / THE PAVEMENT / DRY; inscribed below the canopy: THIS DRINKING FOUNTAIN ORIGINALLY SITE IN THE / MARKET PLACE IN 1885. BUT LATER REMOVED TO THE / BULL CROFT.: at the base of the fountain: WAS RETURNED IN AUGUST 1973.

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