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Walton Well Drinking Fountain

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Former fountain on Walton Well Road geograph.org.uk 1760230
Former fountain on Walton Well Road geograph.org.uk 1760230

The Walton Well Drinking Fountain is a historic drinking fountain in north Oxford, England. It is located at the junction of Walton Well Road, Longworth Road, and Southmoor Road, in Walton Manor, north of Jericho, an inner suburb of Oxford. The fountain is on the site of a spring known as Walton Well (aka Bruman's or Brumman's Well) Previously, a stone trough was available before the drinking fountain was erected in 1885 by an Oxford Alderman, William Ward. At the location of the spring, there is now a drinking fountain in the road, with a plaque dated 1885. It was erected by William Ward, who was Mayor of Oxford in 1851 and 1861. The fountain was designed by the Oxford architect Harry Wilkinson Moore and carved in Portland stone using a Neo-Baroque style by McCulloch of London. The fountain is inscribed on a metal commemorative plaque: The fountain was Grade II listed in 1972. As of 2025, the Oxford Preservation Trust plans to restore the fountain, following a successful fundraiser.

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Walton Well Drinking Fountain
Walton Well Road, Oxford Osney

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Walton Well Drinking Fountain

Walton Well Road
OX2 6EE Oxford, Osney
England, United Kingdom
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Former fountain on Walton Well Road geograph.org.uk 1760230
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St Sepulchre's Cemetery
St Sepulchre's Cemetery

St Sepulchre's Cemetery is a former cemetery located on Walton Street, Jericho, central Oxford, England. The cemetery was opened in 1848 as a cemetery for the Oxford parishes of St Giles, St Michael, and St Mary Magdalen, and the district chapelry of St Paul's Church (which included outlying parts of St Thomas's parish before St Barnabas' Church was built). The cemetery was created because all the other existing Oxford cemeteries were overcrowded after many hundreds of years of burials; two other cemeteries, Osney Cemetery and Holywell Cemetery, were also opened at the same time, to cater to the other eight Oxford parishes. In 1855, new burials were forbidden in all Oxford churchyards, with burials only to take place in existing vaults. However, this order seems to have been ignored; by 1887 the cemetery was supposedly so full that bones were littered between graves.The last new grave was dug in 1944, as St Sepulchre's finally stopped accepting new burials in 1945. The gatehouse lodge, which is owned by the city council, was let out to tenants, and the chapel was demolished in 1970. In 2004, St Sepulchre's was added to the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and in 2005 the group "Friends of St Sepulchre's" was created to uphold the cemetery.The cemetery was formerly surrounded on two sides by the Eagle Ironworks, which shut down in 2005 and has since been replaced by apartments. The cemetery is listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.