It turns out to have been built on the orders of Caroline, Countess of Dunraven, in memory of John Randall of Salisbury, Wiltshire, who died in 1859 after managing the Dunraven Estate for more than 30 years.
Dunraven Castle - really a manor house - was in Southerndown, a village southwest of Bridgend.
Caroline is credited with building two fountains in Bridgend as part of a philanthropic scheme to give the town safe drinking water.
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