Peacock Fountain
Ornate Victorian cast-iron fountain with dolphins, storks and lilies, painted in bold colours.
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This guide to the Peacock Fountain in Christchurch's Botanic Gardens begins in June nineteen eleven, when a cast-iron gift from the English Coalbrookdale ironworks, paid for by John Peacock's will, was unveiled to a city that could not agree on it. You'll meet the art-school head who took up his pen against it, and the fairground comparison he reached for. Stand where you can see the dolphins at the base.
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