Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Memorial Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- kindled-stair-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Memorial Drinking Fountain, St Julian's Friars, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 494 121
- Coordinates
- 52.70476, -2.74959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial Drinking Fountain is a stone obelisk dated 1874, located in Shrewsbury on St Julian's Friars. It features stiff-leaf bands and is raised on a high square plinth with gablets above each projecting fountain basin, adorned with stiff-leaf and lotus flower panels. An inscription commemorates William James Clement, a surgeon, stating it was erected "by his friends and fellow townsmen in grateful recognition of his enlightened public spirit, consummate professional skill and active private benevolence." A bust of Clement is depicted in a medallion on the opposite face of the obelisk. Originally, this fountain was placed outside the station.
Local climate
Memorial Drinking Fountain receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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