SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS

SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS, PICCADILLY CIRCUS W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1265625
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS
Statutory Address:: SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS, PICCADILLY CIRCUS W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1265625
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS
Statutory Address 1:: SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS, PICCADILLY CIRCUS W1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SHAFTESBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN EROS, PICCADILLY CIRCUS W1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29557 80644

Details

TQ 2980 NE 71/73

CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY CIRCUS, WI Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain "Eros"

24.2.58

GV I Memorial Fountain. 1892-93 by Alfred Gilbert commemorating the philanthropist Lord Shaftesbury. Bronze octagonal fountain on stepped platform surmounted by winged archer in aluminium representing the Angel of Christian Charity but always popularly identified as Eros. The sculpture of the fountain itself is of remarkable naturalistic proto-Art Nouveau invention, hence Pevsner's quotation "fishes of all kinds, and every class of molluscous and crustacean life, the crab, the lobster and such like".

Survey of London; Vol XIX. London Volume 1 N Pevsner

Listing NGR: TQ2955780644

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Legacy System number:: 424375
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)
'Survey of London' in Old St Pancras and Kentish Town The Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Volume 19 , , Vol. 19, (1938)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.