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Christchurch, Mercury Fountain, the Great Quadrangle

Oxford, GB

Christchurch, Mercury Fountain, the Great Quadrangle

The Mercury Fountain stands in the centre of the Great Quadrangle, commonly Tom Quad, at Christ Church, Oxford, England. The third statue to stand at the site, it was donated in 1928. The figure of Mercury, Roman god of business, communication, divination, eloquence, gain, luck, thieves, travellers,

and trickery, is modelled on a 16th-century statue by Giambologna. The large basin in which the statue stands is earlier, from the 1670s. The statue's pedestal is by Sir Edwin Lutyens and dates from 1935. The fountain is a Grade I listed structure.

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