Fountain About 80 Yards North of the Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Redditch local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1986. Fountain.
Fountain About 80 Yards North of the Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- final-steel-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redditch
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1986
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- SP 041 677
- Coordinates
- 52.30785, -1.94068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This fountain, located about 80 yards north of the Church of St Stephen, was built in 1883 and is made of painted cast iron. It features an octagonal shallow plinth and a circular moulded stem that has decorative foliated relief work on its narrower central section. Atop this stem is an octagonal pier with a gadrooned base and bull-rush relief work. The pier supports four large cranes that face outward, with large leaves entwined around their feet. Above the pier, the fountain has a vase-like profile that opens into a shallow dish-like shape, upon which stands a figure of a woman, approximately three feet high, surrounded by bull-rushes and pouring water from a vase. The total height of the fountain is about 12 feet. This large fountain, with its unique and naturalistic details, serves as a focal point at the north end of Church Green and is particularly significant when approaching the town centre from Prospect Hill.
Local climate
Fountain About 80 Yards North of the Church of St Stephen receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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