Description

1859. Shallow, circular, granite basin with rope moulded base course and chevroned rim, featuring cast-iron, fountain centrepiece of fluted base bearing shallow decorative bowl with spouts at rim, and crowned by putto statue on circular base carrying further, gadrooned basin.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Balmoral Castle, Chamois Deer Statue, Roe Deer Statue, Shell Drinking Fountain in Sunken Garden and the Statue of Florentine Boar.

The Archives refer to the building of a dwarf wall and fountain basin in front of the tower in 1859. Repaired by Charles Henshaw. Part of the critical foreground of the castle.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17777138

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)