Drinking Fountain - a History
Written by members of Mickleton Women’s Institute in 1970s:
On S side of High Street at Corner of Ballard’s Close, camera facing SE.
An arched niche built in red and blue brick with a stone roof on the front of which is engraved a text:-
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again/
But whoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him/ shall never thirst. St John IV 13, 14
No date given but it would be about 1870, (see Story of Our Village, Mickleton Women’s Institute, 1961, p 46).
There is another similar fountain at Tadpole engraved with the verse:-
E’en as birds drink and straight lift up their head/
So must man sip and think of better drink/
He may attain to after he be dead.
See also The Memorial Fountain.
Date of creation
1970Date of coverage
May 1975Place
Mickleton, High StreetCopyright
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