The glory of the Stanway watergarden is the single-jet fountain
in the Canal, opened on 5th June 2004. Originally suggested
by Paul Edwards, the landscape architect, and engineered by
David Bracey of The Fountain Workshop Limited, the fountain
rises
magnificently to over 300 feet, making it the tallest fountain
in Britain (seconded by Witley Court at 121 feet), the tallest
gravity fountain in the world (seconded by the Fountain of
Fame at La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain at 154
feet), and the second tallest fountain in Europe, after the
400-foot-high turbine-driven fountain in Lake Geneva. The
fountain has a 2-inch bronze nozzle and is driven from an
100,000-gallon reservoir, 580 feet above the Canal, via a
12-inch diameter medium-density polyethylene pipe 2
kilometres long. |