{Carved around the rim of the fountain:}
Coram's Fields, established 1936. Site of the Foundling Hospital, established 1739.
The lamb relief is also carved on the rim of the fountain.
WC1, Coram's Fields
We were in Coram's Fields on a glorious summer day and he kids were having great fun in the paddling pool behind but this fountain (which sports an officious "don't paddle" sign) was sadly not working.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coram's fountain
England's first home for abandoned children. Established in 1739 by Captain T...
The memorial at the entrance to these fields tells how this playground came i...
A lovely fountain, with its egg-and-dart cornicing and gaping mouth, which presumably is where the functioning parts once sat.
'Wardmote' just means a meeting where decisions are made.
Doesn't this picture of the alms houses just make you weep? A London Inheritance has a photographic analysis of how this area has change...
We usually try and find an attractive detail for our close-up picture but we failed on this fountain; its design was rather austere, for ...
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