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A polychrome Gothic fountain to the men who ended slavery in the British Empire.
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Charles Buxton commissioned it in 1865 to his father Thomas Fowell Buxton, who took over Wilberforce's campaign and carried the Abolition Act through Parliament in 1833, and to the others who fought beside him. Samuel Sanders Teulon designed it as a Gothic canopy in granite, marble and enamel with a spire of coloured tiles, as close to Victorian excess as a drinking fountain gets. It stood in Parliament Square until 1949 and was moved here to the gardens beside the Lords in 1957. The Burghers of Calais are a few yards away.
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