The Reverend Urijah Rees Thomas Memorial 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. 1 related planning application.

The Reverend Urijah Rees Thomas Memorial Drinking Fountain

WRENN ID
under-baluster-nettle
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
The Reverend Urijah Rees Thomas Memorial Drinking Fountain, Whiteladies Road
OS grid reference
ST 573 748
Coordinates
51.47067, -2.61543
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reverend Urijah Rees Thomas Memorial Drinking Fountain is a drinking fountain built in 1904. It features red and white granite and red sandstone ashlar, a tiled roof, and a copper-clad cupola. The fountain has an octagonal plan with white granite steps leading up to it. It is supported by eight red granite Roman Doric columns that form a sandstone entablature, with a central sandstone column holding up the roof. There are four granite basins equipped with lion-head taps. The tiled hipped roof is topped with a square cupola that includes clocks and a weather vane. On the south side, there is a panel inscribed to the Reverend Urijah Thomas.

Local climate

The Reverend Urijah Rees Thomas Memorial 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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