Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. Fountain.
Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- second-chimney-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1988
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Memorial Fountain, Spelsbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 360 219
- Coordinates
- 51.89522, -1.47775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This memorial fountain was built in 1862 for the Dillon family. It is made of limestone and pink sandstone, with some polished granite, and is designed in the Gothic style. Water flows from a steeple-like structure that rises from a sandstone base supported by four short granite columns, each topped with stiff-leaf capitals that feature pointed arches within gables. The drum of the circular limestone superstructure is decorated with a band of quatrefoils and is topped with an ornamented spire. A decorative band around the front arch includes the words "IN MEMORIAM," and there is a plate on the rear wall that commemorates Henrietta Viscountess Dillon.
Local climate
Memorial 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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