Clennel Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. Fountain.
Clennel Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- stranded-baluster-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Clennel Memorial Fountain, Harbottle
- OS grid reference
- NT 933 046
- Coordinates
- 55.33625, -2.1057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clennel Memorial Fountain is a fountain built in 1880 by McMillan of Alnwick, designed in the High Victorian Gothic style using ashlar and marble. It features nine steps with low stone walls and square corniced piers that lead up to the terrace where the fountain is located.
The fountain has a square base with two chamfered offsets. On the south side, there is a marble inscription dedicated to Mrs. Clennel of Harbottle Castle, which reads: "Devoted the powers of an active mind, the impulses of a generous heart, and the industry of a busy life to the welfare and happiness of the inhabitants of Harbottle." The fountain includes semi-octagonal basins on the east and south sides, set within trefoiled round-headed recesses. On the west side, water flows from an iron gargoyle.
Above the fountain, there is an elaborate Gothic canopy featuring pointed, trefoiled arches and marble columns with foliage capitals. A smaller arrangement above the round solid care includes intricate crocketed gables.
Local climate
Clennel Memorial 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 lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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