Drinking Fountain Canopy, Victoria Park is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. A C19 Canopy.
Drinking Fountain Canopy, Victoria Park
- WRENN ID
- third-keystone-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Canopy
- Address
- Drinking Fountain Canopy, Victoria Park, Victoria Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 960 919
- Coordinates
- 52.52585, -2.06035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain canopy in Victoria Park is a late 19th-century structure made of cast iron. It features an octagonal plan supported by decorated round columns with foliated capitals. Each side of the upper part has a multi-cusped round arch adorned with openwork foliage decoration. Above each arch, there is a circle with a ropework border that contains a cartouche depicting a stork. The border is inscribed with the words "KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY". On two sides, there is an inscription, now partly illegible, that reads: "Presented to the inhabitants of Tipton by Mr & Mrs C M Waring in commemoration of their golden wedding ... 190-". The canopy is topped with a dome featuring openwork decoration between the ribs. A similar canopy can be found in Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain Canopy, Victoria Park receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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