Bowden Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Fountain.
Bowden Fountain
- WRENN ID
- quartered-belfry-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool West Derby MP: Ian Byrne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Bowden Fountain, Mill Bank
- OS grid reference
- SJ 390 926
- Coordinates
- 53.42728, -2.91883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowden Fountain is a drinking fountain dated 1911, located at Mill Bank. It has a square stone plan with diagonal buttresses and oval bowls on the returns. The fountain features a broad cornice topped with a bronze lantern. A bronze plaque on the fountain reads "THE THOMAS BOWDEN FOUNTAIN ERECTED BY HIS SISTER 1911", while a rear plaque states "ERECTED BY MRS HUGH McCUBBIN".
Local climate
Bowden Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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