John Cross Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1996. Drinking fountain.
John Cross Memorial Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- low-sandstone-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1996
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- John Cross Memorial Drinking Fountain, Seaforth Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 332 969
- Coordinates
- 53.46463, -3.00747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The John Cross Memorial Drinking Fountain is a memorial drinking fountain dated 1912, located on Seaforth Road in Crosby. It commemorates John Cross, who served as superintendent of police. The fountain is made of limestone and features a bronze plaque. It has a square, round-headed pillar with a projected segmental bowl that leads to a round-headed niche. Above this niche is the bronze plaque, which includes a small relief portrait of John Cross wearing an officer's cap, along with lettering that honors his 17 years of public service, noted for his kindness to the people of Seaforth, including his efforts in organizing soup kitchens for the poor.
Local climate
John Cross Memorial Drinking 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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