Drinking Fountain adjacent to Number 10 and opposite Number 11 Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1987. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain adjacent to Number 10 and opposite Number 11 Church Street
- WRENN ID
- graven-tower-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1987
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain adjacent to Number 10 and opposite Number 11 Church Street, S75 4HP
- OS grid reference
- SE 284 080
- Coordinates
- 53.56828, -1.57119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, built in 1866, was designed by George Shaw for Miss Frances and Miss Maria Stanhope of Cannon Hall. It is made of sandstone and is located adjacent to Number 10 and opposite Number 11 Church Street.
The fountain is designed as an Anglo-Scandinavian standing cross with an ornate expanded base, which is mounted on a five-stepped podium. On the north side, there is an in-set water trough.
The cross features rich carvings on all four faces of the cross head and tall shaft, all framed with rope-carved designs. The cross head displays interlacing patterns, while the shaft is adorned with intertwined serpent motifs. The front elevation includes a round-headed panel at the bottom of the shaft, inscribed with a biblical quote from St John iv, 13-14, which speaks of the nature of the water provided.
The base of the fountain is shaped and expanded, deeply carved with interlocked beaked serpents, and it stands on circular steps. The upper four steps have an angled wedge cut out on the north side, into which the stone trough is set. This trough is also carved with snakes coiled around a cross and once served as a drinking fountain.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain adjacent to Number 10 and opposite Number 11 Church Street receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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