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People's Park — Pery Square

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People's Park — Pery Square
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Freestanding cast-iron fountain, erected c. 1877, with a dome shelter situated in the People's Park. Comprising of a cruciform plan, plinth base and square pier surrounded by four squat colonnettes with capitals supporting brackets which holds a round basin. Four foliate brackets divide the basin in four and rise to a tapering finial with sphere. Set on an octagonal limestone platform with eight cast-iron Corinthian columns supporting an octagonal dome. Decorative trim extends beyond the capitals with a decorative gutter above. A single ridge with star motif remains. Manufactured by George Smith and Co. of the Sun Foundry, Glasgow.

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