Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- young-marble-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, St Nicholas Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45392, -2.59322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, located on St Nicholas Street in Bristol, was built in 1859 and sculpted by the Wills Brothers (W and T Wills) of London. It is made of cast iron and features a highly decorative design, including a young head of Queen Victoria supported by cherubs.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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