Langston Memorial Fountain

The Langston Memorial Fountain is a memorial fountain built in 1870 for Julia, Countess of Ducie, in memory of her father, James Haughton Langston. It is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and features a limestone memorial set in a polished granite basin. The memorial takes the form of a squat, square tower with a stepped chamfered plinth and an embattled parapet that includes a blind traceried frieze and a band of armorial shields below.

The tower is adorned with pyramidal corner pinnacles that have setback buttresses, which are linked to a central crocketed spirelet. This spirelet has an octagonal balcony at its base supported by flying buttresses. The pinnacles are topped with cast-iron spikes, and the spirelet features an iron cross. On the east side, there is an ogee-headed plank door with ballflower ornamentation surrounding it, while the west side has a spout set in a trefoil-headed recess that pours water into a circular trough.

The fountain is set within a large square basin that has an apsidal projection on each face. A recessed rectangular panel on the south side bears the inscription: "THIS MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN WAS ERECTED BY/HENRY JOHN 3D EARL OF DUCIE AND/JULIA HIS WIFE DAUGHTER OF/JAMES HAUGHTON LANGSTON AD1870". A similar panel on the north side reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES HAUGHTON LANGSTON/OF SARSDEN BORN MAY 25 1796 DIED OCT. 19 1863/ AND OF JULIA FRANCES DAUGHTER OF THOMAS/1 EARL OF DUCIE BORN OCT.25 1805 DIED JUNE 25 1869". Additionally, there is a Gothic script inscription beginning above the latter panel and running around the west and south sides: "NAN:SILN:SOLUM", repeated on the west, and "PERSPUPRAU 0" on the south side.