Fountain

Whitechapel drinking fountain

Erection date: 1860

Inscription

{On the red granite inset:}
Erected 1860 by one unknown yet well known.
Removed from old church railing and re-erected on present site AD 1879.

{Around the outer arch:}
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. {Acts 16:31}

{Around the inner arch:}
Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. {Revelation 22:17}

E1, Whitechapel Road, Altab Ali Park

The Evening Standard has a thoughtful piece about this park.

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Whitechapel drinking fountain

1250-1286: The first church was built on this site as a chapel of ease (meani...

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Whitechapel drinking fountain

This brainteasing benefactor presents us with an enigma. Searching the web w...

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Wrought-iron arch created as a memorial to Altab Ali and other victims of rac...

The Foundling plaque is in Heathcote Street, in our photo it is in the pavement just to the right of the pedestrian (on his left).

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{On the side facing the garden:} In memory of Philip Twells, M. P., for the City of London, May 8 1881. {On the side facing the road:} M...

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This elaborate fountain was commissioned by Bryant and May to celebrate the abolition of the proposed match tax in 1872. Erected by publ...

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The listing entry says that this is a rare example of a circular drinking trough of granite construction but does not comment on its stat...

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MDFCTA says this was originally erected in 1881 outside The Plough in Clapham, which we think might have been at 156 Clapham High Street,...

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