Fountain, Walls and Steps Fronting Road West of Church of St Petroc is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1949. Fountain.
Fountain, Walls and Steps Fronting Road West of Church of St Petroc
- WRENN ID
- waiting-chimney-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1949
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Fountain, Walls and Steps Fronting Road West of Church of St Petroc, Church Square, Bodmin
- OS grid reference
- SX 072 670
- Coordinates
- 50.47139, -4.71743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a wall fountain with surrounding walls and steps, dated 1545, located west of the Church of St Petroc in Bodmin. The structure features rubble and dressed granite retaining walls topped with granite battlements. It has two carved elvan lions' heads that serve as water spouts above a granite water trough, which is supported by small granite columns beneath a lintel. The wide granite steps are flanked on the left by wrought-iron balustrades, and there is a similar fence in front of the fountain. To the right, the walls partially enclose a granite water channel or trough, and to its left is a well niche with a doorway flanked by two reset granite columns, which may have originated from the former priory. The steps were added in the mid-19th century.
Local climate
Fountain, Walls and Steps Fronting Road West of Church of St Petroc sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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