Fountain. Erected 1869. Designed by John Cundall. Millstone grit and red polished granite with sandstone ashlar and Coade stone dressings. Gothic Revival Early English style. Circular basin with low walls with cavetto moulding and roll-edged copings. Fountain base a quatrefoil with imposed square on plan, stepped. Then tooled plinths with pilasters with foliate caps to angles surmounted by pyramidal caps. From these flying buttresses abut centre, with base square on plan surmounted by cylindrical shaft, then further plinth square on plan surrounded by 4 columns with elaborate foliate capitals supporting quatrefoil basin with acroteria. 4 banded column clusters support smaller quatrefoil basin surmounted by pinnacle with finials. Inscribed: 'IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHMAN WHO DIED ... 1867'.

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