Gardens at Chatsworth - Willow Tree Fountain

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Willow Tree Fountain

The Willow Tree Fountain was a water trick made for the 1st Duke. It was originally in the Ring Pond and has been remade twice. The pioneering traveller Celia Fiennes (1662-1741) wrote in 1696, "all of a sudden by turning a sluice it raines from each leafe and from the branches like a shower, it being made of brass and pipes to each leafe but in apperance is exactly a willow".
Princess Victoria, aged thirteen, called it the 'squirting' tree.

Grade II listed.

The Willow Tree Fountain, Chatsworth

PARISH OF CHATSWORTH CHATSWORTH GARDENS
SK 2669
6/73
The Willow Tree Fountain
II
Fountain. Originally of 1693, but replaced by a larger version
c1830 by Paxton & Holmes, the work executed by Bowers of
Chesterfield. Sandstone boulders and copper. Roughly circular
base of irregularly laid drystone boulders. Copper fountain
above in the form of a willow tree with jets of water spouting
from its branches. The Gardens and Park are included on the
Gardens Register at Grade I. Sources: G F Chadwick The Works
of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.

Listing NGR: SK2622869972

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.

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Taken on: September 1, 2014

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