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For specifications of Ilkley Fountain model, click here:
1/7/24 - reserve price £1,700.00
To place a higher bid, email louisehepworthwood@yahoo.co.uk
Link to the Ilkley Gazette article about the auctioning of this model
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The Ilkley Fountain Project aims to raise funds by 31st May 2024 to revive and restore an important landmark of our Yorkshire spa town by installing a contemporary, locally designed fountain in a central location at the top of Brook Street, where a Victorian fountain once stood.
Donate here, bid at the art auction at the Tinker Gallery, or buy a limited edition of the scale model! More info below...
Like the original Victorian fountain, our fountain is conceived, created, and funded by local people and local organisations as a gesture of hope for the future. The project includes the restoration of the dilapidated gravity-fed fountain mechanism from 1865 so, like the original, the new design will run with fresh moorland water.
Improving Ilkley invites you to help turn this vision into reality with a sculptural centrepiece at the heart of the town, celebrating moorland water and Sphagnum Moss, a keystone species vital to the past, present, and future of our unique local ecosystem.
Donors of any amount, large or small, will be included on a public list which will form an historic record of the project. ‘Keystone’ donors of £250.00 and above are invited to have their names displayed permanently at the fountain site.
This is our moment to show unity and purpose by delivering a fountain symbolising how a community can come together to preserve for future generations the things we all know to be precious, from clean water in the river, to moorland habitats and treasured local institutions.
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Additional images of scale model
Limited edition of scale model information
Further design information of fountain sculpure and gravity-fed plan