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...
There is a non-working drinking fountain at the other end of the trough.
The memorial was designed by Pierce. The 4 statues were sculpted by Woodford. The fountain was inaugurated in 1954, in what is known as t...
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
The inscription text is taken from a modern (and indeed rather nasty) plaque attached to the east side of the plinth. For our close-up s...
The Latin quotation is interesting. It is from the Bible, Proverbs 3;16, and our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, translates it as "In h...