York Historic Environment Record

Street fountain, found in 1906 in sewer excavations in Bishophill Junior (N.G. 60005144) and now in the Yorkshire Museum. It consists of a tank 3¾ ft. square and 3 ft. high made of slabs of magnesian limestone 7½ ins. thick, closely fitted and bound with iron. The back slab rises an extra 8 ins. where it is pierced by an inlet 3 ins. in diameter; the outlet consists of a semicircular duct of the same diameter cut in the top edge of the right-hand slab. The structure was found set in thick layers of clay and protected by a vaulted superstructure.