Mowbray extension park, drinking fountain

This drinking fountain in the north extension of Mowbray Park at the north end of Central Avenue is dated 1878. It carries the cast-iron founder's plate, ‘Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock; for the Order of Oddfellows in memory of William Hall; gift to the Corporation of Sunderland’. A small domed canopy with elaborate foliage and 4 cusped arches on columns shelters a bollard-shaped drinking fountain. Above each arch is a motto - on the north and south: KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY, and NIL DESPERANDUM AUSPICE DEO 1878, (the borough's motto) with symbols of borough and of Oddfellows. On the east and west: AMICITIA AMOR ET VERITAS 1878. Additionally, on the east, IN MEMORY OF WM HALL PPGM OF THE SUNDERLAND DISTRICT INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, and on the west: PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION OF SUNDERLAND BY THE ODDFELLOWS NU. LISTED GRADE 2