Diana Fountain - Green Park, City of Westminster, London, U.K. - Fountains on Waymarking.com

The Diana Fountain is a fountain and sculpture which is also known as 'Diana of the Treetops'.

The Diana Fountain was commissioned by the Constance Trust which agreed to fund the statue in June 1950; when a design competition was organised. The winner of the competition was Jim Clarke, a teacher at Blundell’s School in Devon. It is not clear when the Fountain was unveiled as different source place this in either June 1952 or 1954.

Up until 2011, the statue stood in the centre of Green Park, on the site of an earlier fountain by Sydney Smirke that was deemed beyond repair.

The Fountain was moved to form the centrepiece of a new entrance to Green Park that gives direct access from Green Park Underground Station.

The gilding on the Statue was added at the time of its move to the new location.

There are four circular pools into which the fountain issuing from stylised tree play as well as having drinking bowls for both humans and animals.

The Sculpture atop the fountain depicts Diana unleashing her hunting dog (a Greyhound). The pools sit on a low hexagonal base which in turn is mounted on a circular base.

Britannica.com gives the following information about Diana:

“Diana, in Roman religion, goddess of wild animals and the hunt, identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. Her name is akin to the Latin words dium (“sky”) and dius (“daylight”). Like her Greek counterpart, she was also a goddess of domestic animals. As a fertility deity she was invoked by women to aid conception and delivery. Though perhaps originally an indigenous woodland goddess, Diana early became identified with Artemis. There was probably no original connection between Diana and the moon, but she later absorbed Artemis’s identification with both Selene (Luna) and Hecate, a chthonic (infernal) deity; hence the characterization triformis sometimes used in Latin literature.”

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