Elswick Park, drinking fountain

HER Number:
10318

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick Park, drinking fountain

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

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:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Erected 1881. Hexagonal Gothic drinking fountain with canopy. 3.2m high on a 78cm high base. The base and main structure is grey granite, the pillars are pink granite and the roof is stone. The fountain commemorates the role of six Newcastle men who secured Elswick Park in 1881 until the Corporation bought it for use by the public. Inscribed with the words: "THEY SAVED THIS PARK/ FOR PUBLIC USE/ FOR HEALTH BEAUTY/ AND HAPPINESS/ TO ELEVATE MAN/ AND HONOUR GOD" and "JOS COWEN/ THOS FOSTER/ THOS GRAY/ THOS HODGKIN/ WM SMITH/ WM H STEPHENSON" and "ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION 1881".

Easting:
2315

Northing:
6362

Grid Reference:
NZ23156362

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 113-4