Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1997. Commemorative monument.
Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park
- WRENN ID
- dark-passage-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1997
- Type
- Commemorative monument
- Address
- Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park, Ormerod Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 848 332
- Coordinates
- 53.79516, -2.2319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The commemorative fountain in Queen's Park, dated 1893, serves as a monument to the gift of land by Sir John Hardy Thursby, Bart. in 1888 for the creation of Queen's Park, which opened in 1893. It is designed in the Jacobean-Renaissance style and constructed from sandstone ashlar, rendered brick, and polished pink granite. The fountain features a wide circular bowl made of sandstone ashlar, lined with rendered brick, and has a moulded surround with octagonal piers at the cardinal points topped with ball finials. At the center is a sandstone dome supported by four pairs of polished granite Ionic colonnettes on a square stone plinth. The plinth has panelled sides and diagonal piers with a moulded cornice. The dome includes a frieze that matches the plinth's cornice and is topped with a large obelisk finial. The front and rear panels of the plinth display bronze plaques that commemorate the land gift and the park's opening by the donor on 1 July 1893.
Local climate
Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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