Dryland Fountain

MATERIALS: carved limestone.

DESCRIPTION: tall rectangular limestone pedestal with an entablature and carved finial. The north and south (side) faces are decorated with carved swags of flowers and prominent scrolls or volutes at the base, above a limestone horse trough. The western face reads ‘A MAN / GREATLY / BELOVED’ in a roundel and ‘ERECTED BY / PUBLIC / SUBSCRIPTION’ in a lower panel. The eastern face reads ‘TO THE / MEMORY OF / JOHN WINTER / DRYLAND / M.R.C.S L.M L.S.A / J.P / 1834-1906’. At the base, the water fountain lets into a semi-circular ribbed or ‘gadrooned’ basin. In a panel above the volutes, an inscription on the south elevation has become too eroded to read, the equivalent panel on the north elevation reads ‘HE PRAYETH WELL/ WHO LOVETH WELL / BOTH MAN AND / BIRD AND BEAST’.

A small brass plaque above the basin records that the monument was refurbished in 1994 by KG Wright (Builders) Ltd, supported by the Civic Society of Kettering, the county council and Anglian Water.

Listing NGR: SP8666278336