The former Norfolk & Norwich Hospital - 'Charity'

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 5 Aug 2018

The bronze statue represents Charity, giving a gift of water to a child, and once could be seen on a drinking fountain known as the Boileau Fountain, designed by Thomas Jeckyll in about 1870 and completed in 1876. The drinking fountain was situated at the junctions of Ipswich and Newmarket Roads in Norwich. The sculptor was Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, an Austrian born in Vienna who had moved to England, where he became an Associate of the Royal Academy. The fountain was dismantled in 1965 in order to ease traffic flow and to increase the visibility of passing traffic, and in 2008 the statue was returned to some 50 metres west of where it had once stood, to a new site next to a pond in the grounds of the former Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Boehm's plaster maquette of the statue was kept at Ketteringham Hall where it can now be seen in the small foyer by the main entrance > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4840705.

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