Great North Road, Laing Memorial Fountain
Great North Road, Laing Memorial Fountain
HER Number
5215
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Great North Road, Laing Memorial Fountain
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Site Type: Broad
Water Supply Site
Site Type: Specific
Drinking Fountain
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
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
Easting
424700
Northing
566830
Grid Reference
NZ424700566830
Sources
<< 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