Sidney Cooper Weston drinking fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2019. A C19 Drinking fountain.
Sidney Cooper Weston drinking fountain
- WRENN ID
- ancient-spire-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2019
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Sidney Cooper Weston drinking fountain, Junction of Wear Bay Crescent and Wear Bay Road, Kent, CT19 6AX
- OS grid reference
- TR 236 363
- Coordinates
- 51.08293, 1.19194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sidney Cooper Weston drinking fountain is a drinking fountain and lamp standard erected in 1897 to honor the local philanthropist Sidney Cooper Weston. It was designed by Andrew Handyside and Co of the Britannia Ironworks in Derby and was relocated in 1922.
The fountain is made of painted cast-iron with a base of stone slabs and features a baroque style. It has a quatrefoil-shaped shallow trough surrounding an elaborate drinking fountain topped with a lamp standard. The fountain includes four curved buttresses with decorative mouldings, which terminate in piers topped with statues of putti holding water urns. Between the buttresses are semi-circular basins with gadroon mouldings set over cartouches decorated with roundels. Above the basins, Poseidon masks serve as water spouts, separated by inverted consoles and topped by a gadroon moulding. The pilasters have small lugs that would have originally held chains for drinking mugs, which are now lost.
The lamp standard is designed as a Corinthian column, featuring a bulbous base adorned with acanthus leaves and a fluted shaft with two decorative bands. The lamp gallery has a central column and two branches, each with additional scrollwork, supporting modern light fittings with glass globes.
On one of the piers, there is a plaque with the inscription: "ERECTED/ 1897/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ IN MEMORY OF/ SIDNEY COOPER WESTON/ OF THIS TOWN/ CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPIST/ AND/ GOSPEL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE/ BORN DEC 29TH 1842/ DIED JAN 25TH 1893/ PSALM 41.1 BLESSED IS HE THAT/ CONSIDERETH THE POOR."
The fountain stands on a low circular stone base, which likely replaced the original stone plinth when it was relocated in 1922.
Local climate
Sidney Cooper Weston drinking fountain receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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