Fearon Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. Drinking fountain.
Fearon Fountain
- WRENN ID
- seventh-lintel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Fearon Fountain, Market Place
- OS grid reference
- SK 536 196
- Coordinates
- 52.77144, -1.20648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fearon Fountain is a drinking fountain, dated 1870 above the north arch, which was restored in 1981. It is constructed from ashlar and features polished Aberdeen granite columns, with a late 19th-century cast-iron lamp above. The fountain has a square-based canopied structure on a rustic basement, raised on a plain plinth dated 1981. It is supported by squat columns with stylised foliage capitals and has cusped, round-headed arches, a bracketed cornice, and traceried gables, with the north gable displaying a shield of arms. There are polished marble basins on the north and south sides, and lions' heads on the east and west. An inscription reads, "Our common mercies/loudly call/for praise to God/who gave them all." A metal plaque on the west side notes, "The Fearon Fountain presented to the town by Archdeacon Fearon to mark the provision of Loughborough's first public water supply in 1870. Renovated as part of the Market Place enhancement 1981."
Local climate
Fearon Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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