Drinking Fountain At Junction With Boughton is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain At Junction With Boughton
- WRENN ID
- small-screen-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 THE MOUNT 1932-1/6/199 (East side) 10/01/72 Drinking fountain at junction with Boughton
GV II
Drinking fountain, now dry. 1872. Yellow sandstone. Hexagonal with short spire. Gothic Revival. Alternate sides of hexagon have fountains and inscribed panels: "PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF CHESTER BY MISS HUMBLE OF VICARS CROSS IN MEMORY OF THE LATE ED. HUMBLE AND THE... WHO RESIDED HERE : AND THEY BROUGHT TO HIM ALSO INFANTS THAT HE WOULD TOUCH THEM BUT WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT THEY REBUKED THEM, BUT JESUS CALLED THEM UNTO HIM AND SAID SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN... : WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER SHALL THIRST BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THE WATER
THAT GIVETH LIFE SHALL NEVER... BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM... LIFE". Above the fountains, which have semicircular basins of polished granite, is inscribed "BE PITIFUL BE COURTEOUS : LOVE AS BRETHREN : BE YE OF ONE MIND".
Listing NGR: SJ4187766435
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