{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...
Designed by John Shaw, Jnr., even in its current rather dilapidated state, th...
In memoriam, James & Mary Ann Ward, late of Aldersgate and Islington. Ere...
Unusually the dedication is on the side and the Metropolitan Drinking Fountai...
{Inscribed in the granite of the north, pavement, side of the plinth:}In affe...
