Buxton Memorial Fountain
The Buxton Memorial Fountain (Eng. Buxton Memorial Fountain ) is an out of order drinking fountain in London. Client was the MP and philanthropist Charles Buxton in memory of his father Sir Thomas Buxton , also MP and social reformer as well as his contemporaries and others. a. William Wilberforce , Thomas Clarkson , Thomas Macaulay , who all played their part in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 through the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 .
Emergence
The hobby architect Charles Buxton created the neo-Gothic design himself with the support of the architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. It was inaugurated in Parliament Square in 1866 . The cost was around £ 1200 . In the course of the redesign of the square after the Second World War , the fountain was dismantled in 1949 and only rebuilt in 1957 at its current location in Victoria Tower Gardens .
The fountain was restored from 2006 and returned to the public on March 25, 2007. The date was the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807 , which did not abolish slavery itself, but it did abolish the slave trade .
layout
The floor plan of the pavilion is octagonal. The actual fountain is located inside the pavilion, which can be reached via three steps. Four basins are attached to a central pillar made of gray granite . The water came out of four snapdragons.
A tracery made of limestone rests on eight four-part column groups made of red granite . It is decorated with half columns , mosaics, and floral and animal elements. Bronze figures of English rulers from different epochs once stood on eight small plinths between the pinnacles . a. of Caratacus , leader of the southern English Catuvellaunen , the Anglo-Scandinavian King Canute the Great , the Anglo-Saxon Alfred the Great , William the Conqueror and finally Queen Victoria . They have since been stolen several times and are currently missing.
The most striking feature is the roof in the form of an eight-sided pyramid . It is clad in brightly colored enameled iron elements with a neo-Byzantine influence.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of 18 historic buildings amended to highlight their links to the abolition of slavery. September 29, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
- ↑ protest disrupts slavery service . March 27, 2007 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed May 20, 2018]).
- ^ Westminster: King St, Great George St and the Broad Sanctuary | British History Online. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Historic England: BUXTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, VICTORIA TOWER GARDENS, City of Westminster - 1066151 | Historic England. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '46 " N , 0 ° 7' 29.3" W.