Drinking Fountain

Drinking Fountain
at Burslem

Location: Fountain Square (top of St. John's Square), Burslem
Installed: 1881-83
Commissioned by: Mayor James Maddock

Inscription: On the edge of one of the new steps

ON 25th APRIL 1990 FRANCIS FITZHERBERT. THE LORD STAFFORD, FORMALLY MARKED THE RESTORATION TO THE SITE OF THE BURSLEM DRINKING FOUNTAIN
BY THE STOKE-ON-TRENT CITY COUNCIL AND THE BURSLEM PRESERVATION SOCIETY IN CONJUNCTION WITH STEPHEN BAMBURY OF CO-BAM Ltd.
THE ORIGINAL FOUNTAIN WAS PRESENTED BY JAMES MADDOCK.
A LOCAL POTTERY MANUFACTURER WHEN HE WAS MAYOR OF BURSLEM IN 1881 & 1883.

Description:
A traditional Victorian drinking fountain surmounted with a modern re-production of a gas lamp.
The lower section of the drinking fountain has two bowls, once supplied with water by two elephant heads, on the bowl-less sides are lion heads. Four slim pillars, with Corinthian capitals hold up a canopy which supports the lamp, two dolphins are entwined around the base of the lamp post. Beneath the canopy is an urn with a pair of snakes for handles.
As recorded in the inscription the fountain was renovated in 1990, the chosen colourings of the animals and urn are rather simplistic and garish.

two dolphins are entwined around the base of the lamp post.

The lower section of the drinking fountain has two bowls,
once supplied with water by two elephant heads.

The lower section of the drinking fountain
on the bowl-less sides are lion heads.

Materials:

Part of work	Material	Dimensions
Fountain	Cast Iron, painted black and various other colours	450cm high approx x 170cm wide x 103cm deep

A traditional Victorian drinking fountain surmounted with a modern re-production of a gas lamp.
Four slim pillars, with Corinthian capitals hold up a canopy which supports the lamp

Behind the fountain, to the left can be seen the National Westminster bank.
Directly behind the fountain are some flats and apartments which originally
formed part of Enoch Wood's very large Fountain Place Pottery Works, built in 1789.

Directly behind the fountain can be seen Lycett's Blinds Warehouse.
Originally this formed part of Enoch Wood's very large Fountain Place Pottery Works, built in 1789.