St Nicholas Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1996. Fountain.
St Nicholas Fountain
- WRENN ID
- standing-joist-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1996
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- St Nicholas Fountain, the Serpentine
- OS grid reference
- SD 301 000
- Coordinates
- 53.49243, -3.05423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Nicholas Fountain is a public drinking fountain dated 1881, located in Blundellsands, Crosby. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and sits on a polished granite base. The fountain has a square plan with bowls on each side and features a vaguely Gothic style. An admonitory biblical inscription runs around the base.
Local climate
St Nicholas Fountain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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