Cornhill Water Pump

Erected 1799

Inscriptions read:
On this spot a well was first made and a house of correction built thereon by Henry Wallis Mayor of London in the year 1282
The well was discovered much enlarged and this pump erected in the year 1799 by the contributions of the Bank of England, the East India Company, the neighbouring fire offices, together with the bankers & traders of the ward of Cornhill.