Hitchman Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Fountain.
Hitchman Fountain
- WRENN ID
- north-brass-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warwick
- Constituency
- Warwick and Leamington MP: Matt Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Hitchman Fountain, Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa
- OS grid reference
- SP 318 655
- Coordinates
- 52.28745, -1.53378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hitchman Fountain is a Grade II listed fountain located in Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa. It was erected in 1869 and designed by John Cundall. The fountain is made from millstone grit and red polished granite, featuring sandstone ashlar and Coade stone dressings, and is designed in the Gothic Revival Early English style.
The fountain has a circular basin with low walls that have cavetto moulding and roll-edged copings. The base of the fountain is quatrefoil in shape, with a square plan that is stepped. It features tooled plinths with pilasters that have foliate caps at the corners, topped with pyramidal caps. Flying buttresses support the center, which has a square base surmounted by a cylindrical shaft. This is further elevated by a square plinth surrounded by four columns with elaborate foliate capitals, supporting a quatrefoil basin with acroteria. Above this, four banded column clusters hold a smaller quatrefoil basin topped with a pinnacle and finials. The fountain is inscribed: 'IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHMAN WHO DIED ... 1867'.
Local climate
Hitchman Fountain receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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