Fountain: Temperance fountain
Erection date: 1920
{Inscribed into the ground below the lady's foot:}
Cast by the Coalbrookdale Company
{Inscribed on the base of the statue:}
Wills Bros. Sculpt. London
{On a bronze cartouche attached to the lower base:}
Erected by the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountains Association, Sam. Gurney Esqr. MP, Chairman.
July 1861
Wills Bros Sculpt.
This fountain was originally erected July 1861 at the Royal Exchange. It was moved to make room for the London Troops WW1 memorial which was erected in 1920. PMSA says "The whole rests on hexagonal base with drainage channels with v-shapes cut into relief medallions at corners". The marble base shows the scars of various possible attachments but any medallions are long gone.
Site: Blackfriars Bridge and Temperance fountain (2 memorials)
EC4, New Bridge Street
Blackfriars Station is all new and shiny but this corner of Blackfriars still needs some attention.
