Sedgwick Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Fountain.
Sedgwick Fountain
- WRENN ID
- long-sandstone-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Sedgwick Fountain, Main Street, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 705 869
- Coordinates
- 54.27777, -2.45444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sedgwick Fountain is a memorial fountain located on Main Street in Dent, dating from the late 19th century. It commemorates Adam Sedgwick, who was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University from 1785 to 1873. The fountain is made of roughly-hewn pink granite and features a roughly rectangular base with a trough cut into it. A massive, irregular tapered pier rises from the base, which has an arched drinking fountain cut into it. To the right of the fountain, the name "ADAM SEDGWICK" is inscribed in Gothick lettering, with the dates "1785-1873" below. The fountain is part of a group that includes Sedgwick Cottage, the gateway to the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew, and Ivy Cottage.
Local climate
Sedgwick Fountain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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