Rising Universe

Rising Universe, more commonly known locally as the Shelley Fountain, was a large kinetic water sculpture in Horsham, West Sussex, England.

It was created by the sculptor Angela Conner and installed in 1996 to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was born near Horsham.

[2] The fountain was dismantled and removed from its location in the town centre in June 2016[3] after district councillors voted that it had "reached the end of its serviceable life".

[5] An extract from Shelley's 1817 poem "Mont Blanc" appeared on a plaque on the sculpture: The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark – now glittering – now reflecting gloom – Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters, – with a sound but half its own, Such as a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods, among the mountains lone, Where waterfalls around it leap for ever, Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river

However, Councillor Jonathan Chowen, cabinet member for leisure and culture, said that while it was "a sad moment", it had become too expensive "to continue to pour money into the fountain if we can't get the water feature to work [...] Just to leave the globe standing there is unfair to the art it was".