This drinking fountain sat on
the pavement on Oxford Road outside All Saints Churchyard. The
Public Monument and Sculpture Association website
says this about it: "The provision of both
drinking and ornamental fountains became more popular in Manchester in
the 1890s. James Jardine, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, left money
for the erection of two fountains. Albert Square was considered as a
possible site for one of the fountains, replacing an existing one
installed to mark the arrival of water from the Thirlmere reservoir in
the Lake District. In the end the two fountains were installed: one at
All Saints, Oxford Road and the other outside Jardine's cotton mill in
Butler Street, Ancoats."
