Victorian Drinking Fountain Memorial in Hoe Park is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 2003. A Victorian Drinking fountain, memorial.
Victorian Drinking Fountain Memorial in Hoe Park
- WRENN ID
- noble-spandrel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 2003
- Type
- Drinking fountain, memorial
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Victorian Drinking Fountain Memorial in Hoe Park, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 478 539
- Coordinates
- 50.36589, -4.14091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Victorian drinking fountain memorial in Hoe Park was built in 1881 and is made of polished grey and pink granite. It stands on an octagonal stepped base and features a large square pier with drinking fountains on each side. The corners of the pier are adorned with polished pink granite colonnettes topped with finials, although one finial is missing. The memorial includes a carved foliated cornice and a short granite spire that is topped by a statue of Bathsheba holding an amphora. On one side of the fountain, there is a plaque that reads: "Presented to the Town of Plymouth by Charles Norrington of Abbotsfield in memory of his wife Marianne Norrington 1881." This memorial is part of a group of public monuments located on The Hoe.
Local climate
Victorian Drinking Fountain Memorial in Hoe Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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