The Howard Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Fountain.
The Howard Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- under-panel-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- The Howard Memorial Fountain, Epsom Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 188 582
- Coordinates
- 51.3109, -0.29671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Howard Memorial Fountain is a memorial fountain built around 1880 to commemorate the Honorable Mrs. Mary Greville Howard, who passed away in 1877. Constructed from sandstone ashlar, the fountain is designed in the Gothic style and takes the form of a medieval cross with an octagonal plan. It features a high plinth made up of four steps, with a circular bowl set into the front. The shaft of the fountain is divided into two stages, with inscriptions on three sides of the first stage. The upper stage has trefoil panels, a carved coat of arms on the front panel, and monogrammed initials M G H on the other two panels. The design includes linked hoodmoulds with animal-mask stops, a three-tier offset, and a pinnacle adorned with trefoil panels and an apex cross. The inscription on the shaft reads: "THIS CROSS & FOUNTAIN / ARE ERECTED IN / MEMORY OF THE HONORABLE / MRS MARY GREVILLE / HOWARD BY THE PARISHIONERS OF / ASHTEAD AND MANY / OF HER RELATIONS AND FRIENDS SHE WAS BELOVED / AND HONORED / DURING A LONG LIFE SPENT IN / DOING GOOD AND / MOURNED BY ALL WHEN TAKEN TO / REST ON OCT. 19 1877 / AT ASHTEAD PARK AGED 92 HER WORKS DO FOLLOW HER."
Local climate
The Howard Memorial Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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