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."
