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Description: | Cadw report: 3-sided stone fountain in municipal Renaissance style with a dedication plaque in south face. Relief portraits of Gladstone and his wife in roundels, in west and east faces respectively. Swagged surrounds. Classical flaming urn finial. Base with moulded plinth and scrolled corners. Above these are a sculpted, armed putto sitting astride a dolphin, and at the other corners griffins bearing the arms of the Glynnes and the Gladstones. Acanthus decoration to lower sections with central lozenges containing lion's heads. Fountain now disused. Additional Information: W.E. Gladstone married Catherine Glynne of Hawarden Castle in 1839. He lived at the castle from that time, and on the death of the last male representative of the Glynne family in 1874, W.H. Gladstone, the Prime Minister's eldest ston, succeeded to the estate. | Subjects: | Drinking Fountain | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Griffith, Chester, Edward Designer: Griffith, Chester, Edward Sculptor: Hastings, Donald | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6736... | Go to resource |
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