What is recorded here

No exact time or builder is recorded for the memorial fountain at Lews Castle in Stornoway, Lewis. Its name points to memory rather than ornament, and the castle setting gives that memory a formal shape. The fountain may have marked grief, celebration or civic pride, but the saved fact withholds that meaning.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lewis, Stornoway, Lews Castle, Memorial Fountain as Fountain (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Lews Castle in Stornoway, Lewis, was built in the late 19th century by Sir James Matheson, a Scottish banker and former owner of the Isle of Lewis. It is important as a prominent local landmark and as a symbol of the island's historical connections to Scottish aristocracy and the Victorian era.

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