Drinking Fountain in Fishponds Park 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 in Fishponds Park

WRENN ID
still-barrel-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain in Fishponds Park, Fishponds Road
OS grid reference
ST 633 759
Coordinates
51.48136, -2.52854
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain in Fishponds Park, dated 1893, is made of pennant rubble and ashlar, featuring a marble basin and a cast-iron urn. It has a semicircular arch with a double basin and an urn with taps in the center. Below the urn, there is an inscription honoring J Yalland, Chairman of the Local Board, who erected the fountain when the park opened.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain in Fishponds Park receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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