Fountain, Westminster Abbey, London
The winning design by Fountainhead, for this fountain commissioned by the Dean & Chapter of Westminster Abbey, is situated in the College Garden. The brief was to create a relatively traditional fountain but with no pool due to the close proximity of Westminster College and its adventurous younger pupils. The ‘pool’ is a flat circular plane of polished black granite and it has a central well from which a single fountain jet rises.
The ‘pool’ has 8 low bubbler jets evenly spaced around the midpoint of its radius. These bubbler jets spread a rippling surface layer of water over the whole granite surface. The water from the granite surface and the fountain falls into the well and runs to an underground reservoir where it is re-circulated.
