Drinking Fountain at Junction with Boughton is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Boughton
- WRENN ID
- small-screen-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain at Junction with Boughton, the Mount, CH3 5UD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 418 664
- Coordinates
- 53.19183, -2.87138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, now dry, is located at the junction with Boughton and was built in 1872. It is made of yellow sandstone and features a hexagonal shape topped with a short spire, designed in the Gothic Revival style. Each alternate side of the hexagon has a fountain and inscribed panels. One panel reads: "PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF CHESTER BY MISS HUMBLE OF VICARS CROSS IN MEMORY OF THE LATE ED. HUMBLE AND THE... WHO RESIDED HERE: AND THEY BROUGHT TO HIM ALSO INFANTS THAT HE WOULD TOUCH THEM BUT WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT THEY REBUKED THEM, BUT JESUS CALLED THEM UNTO HIM AND SAID SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN... : WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER SHALL THIRST BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THE WATER THAT GIVETH LIFE SHALL NEVER... BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM... LIFE." Above the fountains, which have semicircular basins made of polished granite, is the inscription: "BE PITIFUL BE COURTEOUS: LOVE AS BRETHREN: BE YE OF ONE MIND."
Local climate
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Boughton receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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