Anne Popple drinking fountain - Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

Anne Popple water fountain, on the village green, Welton.

In 1874, Anne Popple, who had lived in the village, provided funds in her will, for the erection of a drinking fountain.

"The Fountain, which has long since ceased to discharge water but is a very interesting piece of listed architecture. There is an inscription round this perpendicular fountain which reads 'In memory of Anne Popple AD 1874 "I will give a vow God that if you have a thirst of the fountain of the water of life, drink freely".' The green itself was once surrounded by heavy black chains but these were removed for the war effort in the Second World War."

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"Perpendicular style. Octagonal pier with string course and floral panels to top, cornice ornamented with diaper work and brattishing and with grotesque figures to each corner, (heads all missing). Frieze of shields beneath an ogee cap with poppyhead finial. Adjoining the fountain is a hollowed out stone, forming part of the base: a spout, now missing, led water into the basin."

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