Amelia's photos with the keyword: Fountain

Today's Saturday Self Challenge is: A fountain. This is a calm area in The Quarry in Shrewsbury called The Dingle. It is maintained by the local council, and this pool area is at its best in Autumn. The gardens are very popular with visitors, but this year there has been a strict one-way movement through the area with parts of the garden fenced off.

Cardiff City Hall is a civic building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales, serving as Cardiff's centre of local government since it opened in October 1906. Built of Portland stone, it is an important early example of the Edwardian Baroque style. In front of the entrance portico is a rectangular pool with fountains. They were created in July 1969 to mark the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales. The design, by the architect Henry Vaughan Lanchester, is inspired by English and French Renaissance architecture, but has in addition all the presence and confidence of the Edwardian period, when Cardiff’s prosperity from the coal industry was at its height. The dome is surmounted by a Welsh dragon, sculpted by HC Fehr. The distinctive clock tower (seen in the PiP) is 59 m (194 ft) in height has a 3.7 m-diameter (12 ft) gilded dial on each of its four faces. The clock mechanism includes an hour bell and four quarter bells which are each inscribed with mottoes in English or Welsh. The building beyond the city hall is the National Museum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall,_Cardiff

This is a fine example of a Victorian drinking fountain, which celebrates the versatility of cast-iron to decorative effect. It was cast by the Alexander Russell at the Kirkcaldy Foundry in 1824 and was one of a series placed along the length of the "Great Fife Road". The fountain is located in Newport 0n Tay in the Kingdom of Fife. It is a substantial canopied cast-iron drinking fountain of Moorish design, prominently sited just by the pavement. Concrete stone steps to dais and concrete covered plinth. There are 8 columns on chamfered bases with foliate detailing to base, capital and interior supporting 8 arches with scallop edging. Plaques in roundels above all arches decorated with herons and stags and inscribed 'KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY'. There is a plaque on the east side inscribed 'THE GIFT OF MRS BLYTH MARTIN 1882'. (The Blyths were a Dundee family). There are stylised creatures between plaques and a ribbed domed roof of traceried metal with floral designs. The fountain is painted cream colour, the plaques and capitals painted red and creatures and roof ribs painted gold. In the background it's possible to see the River Tay road bridge linking the Kingdom of Fife to the county of Angus. I think it has been recently painted. It didn't look as posh as this when I was a child. ;-) The fountain was designated as a Category B listed building on 27/11/2002.