Holman Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Public fountain.
Holman Fountain
- WRENN ID
- still-grate-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public fountain
- Address
- Holman Fountain, Chapel Street, Camborne
- OS grid reference
- SW 647 400
- Coordinates
- 50.21386, -5.29936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holman Fountain is a public fountain located in Camborne, dated 1890 on its north side. It is constructed from granite ashlar and cast iron, with brass fittings. The fountain has a circular plan and features two-tier bowls topped by a lamp standard. The lower bowl measures approximately 3 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high, with a hollow-moulded rim. A short circular pedestal in the center supports the smaller upper bowl, which has a cyma-moulded underside and a chamfered rim. The upper bowl is also supported by a square central pedestal that has lion-head spouts on each side and a cast-iron lamp standard on top. The lower pedestal is inscribed on the north side: "PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF CAMBORNE BY JOHN HOLMAN OF CAMBORNE VEOR 1890." John Holman's engineering firm was the main manufacturer of mining machinery in the area.
Local climate
Holman Fountain receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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