Tyne and Wear HER(5214): Great North Road, Colvill Memorial Fountain - Details
5214
Newcastle
Great North Road, Colvill Memorial Fountain
Newcastle
NZ26NW
Water Supply and Drainage
Water Supply Site
Drinking Fountain
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Structure
Grey granite slab with a hollowed out basin supported on a grey limestone base with a grey limestone commemorative plaque behind. The plaque is backed with concrete and supported by steel supports which have been set into a concrete block behind the plinth. The plaque is set with letters, probably of lead, cast into the stone. This fountain seems to have been intended for placement against a wall, the fountain relocated from its place of origin. LOCAL LIST
424740
566450
NZ424740566450
<< HER 5214 >> T. Coulter & R. Ogilvy, in association with City Design, 2002, Monuments, War Memorials, Drinking Fountains - Condition & Recommendatations, p 52-53; 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; Monthly Chronicle, 1889, p 382