Public Fountain at Bank Top is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Fountain.
Public Fountain at Bank Top
- WRENN ID
- mired-corridor-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Public Fountain at Bank Top, Chillingham
- OS grid reference
- NU 056 260
- Coordinates
- 55.52824, -1.91158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The public fountain at Bank Top, built in 1872, is made of limestone ashlar. It features an octagonal shape resting on a square base, topped with a pyramidal roof that has a cornice and a foliated cross finial. On the west face, there is a trefoiled panel above a semicircular bowl, which is adorned with leaf carving and supported by a colonnette with a carved capital. There are similar colonnettes and capitals at the left and right angles, although the right colonnette is missing. A drip stone forms a gable above the trefoil panel.
Local climate
Public Fountain at Bank Top receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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