Bainbridge Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Fountain.
Bainbridge Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- dim-string-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Bainbridge Memorial Fountain, Horse Market, Middleton in Teesdale
- OS grid reference
- NY 947 254
- Coordinates
- 54.62388, -2.08279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bainbridge Memorial Fountain is a cast iron fountain located in Horse Market, Middleton in Teesdale, and was created around 1877 by Geo. Smith Foundry in Glasgow. It was commissioned by R.W. Bainbridge of Middleton House, who was an agent for the London Lead Company, to commemorate a memorial presented to him and his wife by the company’s employees and friends.
The fountain features four shafts that support a domed canopy topped with a finial, over a draped figure of a child holding an upturned urn, which is set in a wide basin on a fluted pedestal. Each side of the canopy has raised pediments above arches, which contain identical commemorative panels and inscriptions. The design is richly decorated with leafy motifs, and the interior of the dome displays crocodiles descending towards the shafts.
A 20th-century tap has been fitted to the urn, and there is a small basin at ground level attached to the rear of the pedestal.
Local climate
Bainbridge Memorial Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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