Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough
Drinking Fountain and Trough

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The fountain was erected to provide drinking water for mourners and visitors to the Extra-Mural Cemetery. The company who erected the fountain employed A. H. Wilds and it is possible that Wilds was the designer. The cemetery was consecrated on 14th November 1857 by the then Bishop of Chichester, Dr A. T. Gilbert.

The Extra-Mural Cemetery covers land formerly the open arable field of Scabes Castle, a late eighteenth-century farm with buildings in Hartington Road. These were demolished in the 1900s when Hartington Place and Hartington Terrace were developed. The Extra-Mural Cemetery is the oldest of the three cemeteries on the land.
Title

Drinking Fountain and Trough

Date

1851

Accession number

BN2_LS_S067

Acquisition method

commissioned by Brighton Extra-Mural Company

Work type

Water fountain, trough or pump

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

14th August 1851

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

October–March 9am–4pm, Sunday 11am–4pm, April–September 9am–5.30pm, Sunday 11am–5.30pm

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Located at

Lewes Road, Brighton

BN2 4DZ

Located at Extra-Mural Cemetery, in front of the Ray Mausoleum and the old Anglican chapel.