Fountain, High Street
Fountain, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391259
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- Fountain, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391259
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- Fountain, High Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Fountain, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75551 22941
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Amendment on 15 January 2026 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
691/0/10028
HIGH STREET
Fountain
II
Also Known As: Fountain, ST MICHAEL'S ROAD
Fountain. Sculpted and designed by John Hodge, cast by Messrs. Burton of Thames Ditton, erected in 1937. Granite circular bowl with concave sides on the rim of which stand four bronze statues, two of otters and two of sea lions with captured fish and with water issuing from their mouths. At the centre is a large bronze nautilus shell born upwards by a raft of bronze lily pads which supports a bronze statue of a nearly naked boy with legs astride and an otter at his feet. He holds a fish in each hand, each fish spouting water from its mouth. On the east side of the shell is raised lettering: "THE GIFT OF/WILLIAM JULIAN COURTAULD ESQ.JP./OF PENYPOT HALSTEAD/ [Coat of arms]/TO THE TOWN OF BRAINTREE/IN MEMORY OF/KING GEORGE V".The south side of the shell is inscribed ‘John Hodge / Sculpt / 1936’
The fountain forms a very distinct addition to the urban scenery at this crucial point in Braintree where several roads converge. This fountain exhibits a good deal of playfulness. It forms a group with the Church of St. Michael the Archangel [q.v.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491857
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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