Tyne and Wear HER(5215): Great North Road, Laing Memorial Fountain - Details
5215
Newcastle
Great North Road, Laing Memorial Fountain
Newcastle
NZ26NW
Water Supply and Drainage
Water Supply Site
Drinking Fountain
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Structure
Complex design with basins at three levels executed in polished pink granite with a ball finial to the pillar surmounted by a decorative wrought iron feature. There is an inscription carved into one side of the base. There is a bronze faucet which has been vandalised and which has been blanked off by a crude steel plate screwed to the pillar. The ground level has been raised by a rough concrete surround. LOCAL LIST
424700
566830
NZ424700566830
<< HER 5215 >> T. Coulter & R. Ogilvy, in association with City Design, 2002, Monuments, War Memorials, Drinking Fountains - Condition & Recommendatations, p 54-55; Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 44; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 117