The Talbot Hounds Fountain

Nice place to sit and chill. Shame the dog fountain doesn't work

Nice quiet place just of boar Lane opposite trinity. Good place to eat your lunch and relax.

Sep 2022: The Talbot was a type of hunting hound common in England during the Middle Ages. It is depicted in art of the period as small to medium-sized, white in colour, with short legs, large powerful feet, a deep chest with a slender waist, long drooping ears, and a very long curled tail. It is shown in one well-known example at Haddon Hall with a fierce facial expression. It is now extinct, but is believed to be an ancestor of the modern Beagle and Bloodhound. It is uncertain whether it was a scenthound (bred for the quality of its nose), a sighthound (bred for the quality of sight and speed), or a dog used for digging out quarry, nor is it known what type of quarry it hunted, whether deer, fox, boar, etc.In Trevelyan Square, a noble Talbot - a hunting hound - stands alongside three others, supporting a grand stone fountain built for Castle Carr, a huge mock-medieval house near Halifax. Lost for decades after the house fell into ruins, the fountain eventually reappeared in a stonemason's yard in the 1990s!