Temperance Fountain

Category: Marker/Sign/Street Furniture

Temperance Fountain,
Glasgow Green

This drinking fountain is a memorial to Sir William Collins who was active in the Temperance Movement. This was an organisation which tried to keep people from over-indulgence in alcohol. On the plinth is a bronze bas-relief of Collins and on the top is a statue of a young girl, perhaps a symbol of Innocence, made by the sculptor John Mossman in 1881. This fountain, like many others, no longer dispenses water, but now has a more ornamental function.