Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1973. Fountain.
Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- first-truss-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1973
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Memorial Fountain, Market Place, Cleator Moor
- OS grid reference
- NY 019 150
- Coordinates
- 54.52133, -3.51616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial fountain, built in 1903, is located in the market place at the north end of Cleator Moor. It was donated by the townspeople to their benefactor John Stirling to commemorate his golden wedding. The fountain is made of polished grey and pink granite and features three steps on a moulded plinth. At the top, a squat drum with an inscription supports a large bowl, which is surmounted by a smaller bowl on a slender column. The pelican or heron finial that was mentioned in a previous listing is no longer present.
Local climate
Memorial Fountain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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