Public Drinking Fountain

The public drinking fountain, built in 1856, is located in Ugglebarnby and incorporates a lion's head of an earlier date. Designed by John Allan of Hempsyke, the fountain features a stone trough and a sandstone rubble wall. Water flows from the marble lion's head into a large trough set within a square-headed niche in the wall, which stands approximately 1.75 meters high. The top of the wall is shaped in the center between volutes to encompass a semicircular inset panel that is carved with the following inscription:

"A HEMPSYKE Wall over niche contains three engraved plaques:- Weary stranger Here you see This stream is pure as if from An emblem of true Charity Heaven it ran Richly my bounty I bestow And while I praise the Lord I'll Made by a kindly hand to flow thank the man. And I have fresh supplies from Heaven For every cup of water given. Tramp 1861 John Allan Hempsyke 1858 Man made the Trough The water God bestows Then praise His nine From whom the blessing flows John Allan Hempsyke 1856."