Description

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. BROWNLOW STREET (west SJ 5441 SJ 54508 41565 side) 8/39 Churton Memorial - Drinking Fountain GV II

Drinking fountain, Dated 1882. Banded pink and grey granite base and banded red and grey sandstone ashlar upper parts. Octagonal plan. In a Gothic Revival style. Base with moulded stone cornice, steps up to chamfered- arched recess to front and back with copper lion-mask spouts and semi-circular bowls, and former semi-circular animal troughs to each side (flower beds at time of survey - November 1986). Inscription around top: "EVERY : ONE : THAT : DRINKETH / OF : THIS : WATER / SHALL THIRST : AGAIN / BUT : WHOSOEVER / DRINKETH : OF : THE : WATER : THAT / I : SHALL : GIVE : HIM / SHALL : NEVER : THIRST / ST JOHN : CHAP 4: VER 13 & 14". Chamfered offset to top part. Moulded arches to front and back, each with 2 cinquefoil- headed lights (but no central shaft), blind tracery, flanking square buttress with battlemented caps, and crocketed gable above with finial. Each side with 2 cinquefoil-headed blind panels, octagonal pier with moulded base and cap, and disused gas-lamp fitting. Octagonal pinnacle above consisting of blind ogee trefoil-headed panels to sides with gables above, and short crocketed spire with wrought-iron cross finial. Carved panel in arch to east depicting 2 women drawing water from a well. Inscription in arch to west not completely legible at time of survey (November 1986): THIS FOUNTAIN WAS/ ERECTED BY JOHN CHURTON / OF ... / IN LOVING MEMORY OF / HIS PARENTS AND... WIFE / ANN CHURTON AND AS / A MEMORIAL OF HIS / AFFECTIONATE & ENDURING / INTEREST IN THE WELFARE / OF HIS NATIVE TOWN 1882". The fountain formerly stood at the junction of Green End, Brownlow Street, Talbot Street and Station Road, but when the by-pass was built in 1924 it became a hindrance to traffic, and was eventually moved to its present site in the early 1930's. Whitchurch Area Archaeological Group, Whitchurch Remembered (1979), ill.71.

Listing NGR: SJ5450941566

External Links

• Churton Memorial Fountain at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5118330

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