Earlsdon Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 2017. Drinking fountain.
Earlsdon Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- floating-lintel-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry South MP: Zarah Sultana (YP)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 2017
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Earlsdon Drinking Fountain, Earlsdon Avenue
- OS grid reference
- SP 323 776
- Coordinates
- 52.39581, -1.52546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Earlsdon Drinking Fountain is a cast-iron drinking fountain made by George Smith & Co in Glasgow during the 1860s. Originally located outside the Church of St John the Baptist in Coventry around 1870, it was moved to its current position on Earlsdon Avenue in 1921.
This octagonal fountain stands on a tapered plinth with a concave waist. It features a water bowl on the west and east faces, each equipped with a brass water tap above. Additionally, there are two openings at the base that serve as water basins for animals. The fountain is topped with an ogee cupola that has a gold-painted acorn finial and an embossed motif featuring a fleur-de-lis on all four sides. The band beneath the cupola is adorned with decorative bolts at regular intervals, which have also been painted gold.
Local climate
Earlsdon Drinking Fountain receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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