Mayo Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. Fountain. 2 related planning applications.
Mayo Fountain
- WRENN ID
- first-slate-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Mayo Fountain, High Street, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 706
- Coordinates
- 51.43435, -2.18424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mayo Fountain is a memorial fountain and drinking trough built in 1896 for C.T. Mayo of Ivy House. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a pennant stone drinking trough at the front and a bowl at the rear. The fountain has a pedestal that supports an open moulded arch, which includes imposts and a keystone, with paired columns on either side. Above the arch is a cornice that breaks forward over the columns. The upper section displays carved roundels, with a monogram on the front and the date 1895 on the rear, topped with a curved moulding, a finial, and flanking short paired piers that have moulded caps and ball finials. Beneath the arch, there is a curved-headed block with an inscribed panel dedicated to C.T. Mayo.
Local climate
Mayo Fountain receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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