Fir Tree War Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 2016. Memorial fountain.
Fir Tree War Memorial Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- turning-hammer-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 2016
- Type
- Memorial fountain
- Address
- Fir Tree War Memorial Drinking Fountain, The Green, DL15 8DG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 139 345
- Coordinates
- 54.70548, -1.78546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fir Tree War Memorial Drinking Fountain is a stone memorial approximately 2.5 meters tall, located on the green in Fir Tree. It is designed as a drinking fountain, featuring an elaborate pinnacled urn on a square pedestal at the top. Each face of the pedestal has shallow hoods from which drinking water once flowed, with small basins projecting below each hood, supported by decorated corbels. The pedestal sits on a square plinth, which is raised on a two-stepped stone base. The edges of the plinth are chamfered with stops at the top of each curve, creating blind panels on each side.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth reads: "ERECTED TO/ THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ THE VILLAGE/ OF FIR TREE/ WHO MADE/ THE SUPREME/ SACRIFICE IN/ WAR/ 'THEY LIVE'." The names of those who served in the First World War are listed on either side. The dedication for the Second World War is on the rear face, reading: "1939 – 1945/ (3 NAMES)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR/ EVERMORE."
Local climate
Fir Tree War Memorial Drinking Fountain receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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