Flora Fountain is made from fine Portland stone, which is quarried in Dorset, England. It was designed by Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) and sculpted by James Forsythe. The four corners of the fountain have four allegorical female figures representing the four seasons.
Flora Fountain was commissioned by the Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India who had initially planned the fountain to be installed at the Jijamata Udyan (formerly Victoria Garden) at Byculla. However, the site was later changed to be located just outside the former church gate where new space was made available with the filling up of the moat that surrounded the Fort walls.