Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1993. Fountain.
Fountain
- WRENN ID
- patient-vestry-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1993
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- SD 931 041
- Coordinates
- 53.53352, -2.10472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The fountain, built in 1865, is located in Alexandra Park, Oldham. It is constructed from stone and polished granite. The design features a large stone basin with a central shaft, which has a circular stone base and is surrounded by four outer columns, all made of polished granite and topped with foliate capitals. This design is mirrored on a smaller scale to support an upper basin, from which a figure holding a dolphin emerges from reeds. An inscription on the lower basin indicates that the fountain was presented by Joseph Radcliffe, the mayor of Oldham, in 1865.
Local climate
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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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