Drinking Fountain Approximately 3 Metres North West of Bedminster Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.

Drinking Fountain Approximately 3 Metres North West of Bedminster Bridge

WRENN ID
old-transept-rook
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
OS grid reference
ST 589 720
Coordinates
51.44595, -2.59168
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This drinking fountain, located approximately 3 metres north-west of Bedminster Bridge, was built in 1861. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, with elements of Pennant stone and marble. The fountain features a marble splashback above a cast-iron basin shaped like a shell, set within a round-arched alcove made of limestone and Pennant voussoirs, topped with a cable-moulded archivolt. A large key supports a shell within a dentil pediment on brackets, and there are ramped plinths on either side. The entablature is inscribed with "ERECTED/ MDCCCLXI."

Local climate

Drinking Fountain Approximately 3 Metres North West of Bedminster Bridge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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