Lochgilphead
Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned), Fountain (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lochgilphead
Classification Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned), Fountain (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 331568
Site Number NR88NE 144
NGR NR 86216 87940
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/331568
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
External Reference (29 June 2013)
Water fountain in memory of Dr A R Fraser, Lochgilphead
Glasgow Herald - Saturday 11 September 1897
LOCHGILPHEAD. - MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN - The erection was completed yesterday of a handsome fountain which has been put up in the square in memory of the late Dr A. R. Fraser, son of the late Rev. William Fraser, minister of Lochgilphead Free Church. The fountain, which is of red freestone on a concrete base, measures 7ft. 6in. by 6ft., and stands 10ft. high, and is the work of Messrs Muir & Co., sculptors, Kilmarnock. It bears the following inscription :- "In memory Alexander Rodger Fraser, M.A., M.B., C.M., born 1865, died 1895. Erected by a few friends belonging to the Bengal Collieries, India'" Dr Fraser was for a time engaged as medical officer in the collieries, and died at the Red Sea when on his way home. The fountain is from a design by Mr William Fraser, architect, Glasgow and Dunoon, brother of the late Dr Fraser.
Information from M Briscoe, 29 June 2013
