Fountain 5 Metres South East of Sunderland Cemetery North Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Fountain.
Fountain 5 Metres South East of Sunderland Cemetery North Chapel
- WRENN ID
- dim-cobble-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- NZ 407 544
- Coordinates
- 54.88326, -1.36652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a fountain located 5 metres southeast of the North Chapel at Sunderland Cemetery, dating from around 1860. It is constructed from yellow and red sandstone ashlar, along with red and grey granite. A marble plaque on the east side of the base is signed by J McMillan. The fountain features a carved Scotia-moulded plinth with a red granite bowl that projects from the cornice. The next section has elaborate scroll carvings and female heads on all sides, with a lion mask on one side from which a tap protrudes over the basin, situated below a moulded cornice. A round polished red granite shaft rises from acanthus leaves at the base to corbelled arcaded shafts beneath a prominent moulded cornice. At the top, there is an octagonal ashlar blind lantern with granite roundels recessed on all sides, and it is capped with octagonal coping that gathers into a crocketed finial.
Local climate
Fountain 5 Metres South East of Sunderland Cemetery North Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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