St Lawrence Jewry Memorial Fountain was designed by
architect John Robinson and the bronze sculpture was carried out by
the artist Joseph Durham, and erected in 1866 outside the church of
St Lawrence Jewry.
During the redevelopment of the Guildhall in the 1970’s, the
fountain was dismantled, but one of the planning permission
conditions of the redevelopment was that the fountain should be
re-erected. The dismantled fountain was left in the bomb site of
the Guildhall Art Gallery for approximately 15 years and then
stored on pallets in a barn at Great Gregories Farm, in Epping. The
two sculptures, the figures of St Lawrence and St Mary Magdalene
and a bas relief of Moses striking the Rock were stored at the
Guildhall Art Gallery. The sculptures and bas relief are now stored
by Rupert Harris Conservation.
The stones have been relocated and are now stored in a safer,
more secure environment, in a store in Chichester. The stones are
on pallets and protected.