The Fountain and Basin is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. Fountain.
The Fountain and Basin
- WRENN ID
- steep-render-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1988
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- The Fountain and Basin, the Green, Welton
- OS grid reference
- SE 958 272
- Coordinates
- 53.73317, -0.5489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain and Basin is a Grade II listed structure located in Welton The Green, dated to 187- (with the last digit illegible). This fountain is constructed from ashlar stone and is designed in the Perpendicular style. It features an octagonal pier with a string course and floral panels at the top. The cornice is decorated with diaper work and brattishing, and grotesque figures are positioned at each corner, although all the heads are missing. Below the ogee cap, which is topped with a poppyhead finial, there is a frieze of shields. An inscription in Gothic script beneath the string reads, "In memory of Anne Popple ad 1874. I will give (a) vow God, that if (you have) a thirst, of the fountain of the water of life, (drink) freely." Adjacent to the fountain is a hollowed-out stone that forms part of the base, which originally had a spout (now missing) that directed water into the basin.
Local climate
The Fountain and Basin receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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