Christ Church Gardens Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Christ Church Gardens Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- upper-spandrel-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Christ Church Gardens Drinking Fountain, Blackfriars Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 315 802
- Coordinates
- 51.50616, -0.10567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Christ Church Gardens Drinking Fountain is a drinking fountain built in 1900. It was erected by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association at the expense of philanthropist John Passmore Edwards, who also funded three other drinking fountains in various locations in London. The fountain features a chamfered square stone base on a plinth, with a sculptured bowl on one side and a metal bowl on the other. At the center, there is a chamfered square stone feature topped with a pyramidal roof that has a copper inscription. Four bracketed wooden corner posts support a conical tiled roof adorned with an elaborate copper finial. The entire structure is set on an octagonal step. The other drinking fountains provided by Passmore Edwards are located at Hoxton Square, Duncan Terrace in Islington, and Leyton Square in Camberwell, each with a distinct design.
Local climate
Christ Church Gardens Drinking Fountain sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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