Low Street, Biggar Fountain, Banff
Description: Low Street, Biggar Fountain
Category: B
Date Listed: 15 February 1982
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22051
OS Grid Coordinates: 368962, 863981
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6646, -2.5219
Location: 47 B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AN
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AN
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Listing Text
John Rhind, 1878. Ornate late gothic drinking fountain with crown head. Polished and tooled ashlar. Crocketted corona supported by squat cluster columns and linked at 4 corners to stumpy facetted columns (formerly supporting pinnacles) linked by short flying buttresses; all assembled on square base with cluster column angles and inscribed plaques; shallow stepped base.
References:
Charles McKean, BANFF & BUCHAN, AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (l990), p12.
Notes:
Inscription reads 'Presented to the Town of Banff in memory of Walter Biggar Esq. and Mrs. Anne Duff, his wife. 1878.' Walter Biggar was involved with the herring trade. Biblical inscriptions on E and W panels.
Source: Historic Scotland
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