Erection date: /7/1885
{Carved in the granite pedestal:}
Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
Site: Orbell fountain - St Andrew's Gardens (1 memorial)
WC1, St Andrew's Gardens
Erection date: /7/1885
{Carved in the granite pedestal:}
Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
WC1, St Andrew's Gardens
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orbell fountain - St Andrew's Gardens
Second child of 12. Parents John and Catherine Orbell of Brundon Mill, Ballin...
Designed by John Shaw, Jnr., even in its current rather dilapidated state, this delightful fountain puts other Victorian examples to shame.
The arch from the Victorian drinking fountain has been rescued and reused above a modern drinking fountain, which no longer produces wate...
For another lovely Gothic pump, possibly the same model, see Enfield Market.
We love the elaborately correct use of English: "... in the acquisition of which for ...". To us it seems exaggerated, convoluted. Did ...
The listing entry provides: "Samuel Palmer of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, Reading built his family home c1880 at 40 College Crescent, ...
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