Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, officially and popularly known as Eros, is a fountain crowned by a winged statue of Anteros, located to the southeast of Piccadilly Circus in London, England. Moved after World War II from its original location in the center of the circus, it was built in 1892–93 to commemorate the charitable works of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and philanthropist Victorian era, as well as his achievement in replacing child labor with child labor. school education. The fountain, which overlooks the southwestern end of Shaftesbury Avenue, is also named after the Earl.