Memorial Drinking Fountain 20 Metres North Of Church Of St Cuthbert

The memorial drinking fountain, located 20 metres north of the Church of St. Cuthbert in Greenhead Village, was erected in 1865 in memory of John Blenkinsop Coulson. It is made of sandstone and stands 2.0 metres tall, featuring a banded, square-plan block on a roll-moulded base. The fountain includes semicircular basins with squat colonettes and foliage capitals on both sides. An inscription on the front reads: "ERECTED IN MEMORY OF JOHN BLENKINSOP COULSON .... BY HIS WIDOW AND FAMILY 1865." The top section, which is above a hollow-chamfered band adorned with stiff-leaf carving, has a gable on each face. Each gable features carved foliage borders and roll-moulded ridges that contain oval plaques, one with a swan on the front and the other with the Blenkinsop shield on the sides. The fountain is topped with a vase finial that has carved foliage on an octagonal-plan base.