Description

WELTON THE GREEN SE 9527 (centre) 9/77 The Fountain and Basin II GV Fountain. Dated in inscription 187- (last digit illegible). Ashlar. Perpendicular style. Octagonal pier with string course and floral panels to top, cornice ornamented with diaper work and brattishing and with grotesque figures to each corner, (heads all missing). Frieze of shields beneath an ogee cap with poppyhead finial. Beneath the string is an inscription in a Gothic script "In memory of Anne Popple ad 1874. I will give (a) vow God, that if (you have) a thirst, of the fountain of the water of life, (drink) freely." Adjoining the fountain is a hollowed out stone, forming part of the base: a spout, now missing, led water into the basin.

Listing NGR: SE9582427284

External Links

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