Via Crucis and Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1983. Fountain.
Via Crucis and Fountain
- WRENN ID
- lone-corridor-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1983
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Via Crucis and Fountain, Church Street, Frome
- OS grid reference
- ST 777 479
- Coordinates
- 51.23012, -2.32071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Via Crucis and Fountain, built around 1860, features sculptures by James Forsyth and was likely constructed by builders F and G Brown, with possible architectural design by C E Giles. It was commissioned for Reverend W J E Bennett. The structure is made of rubble and ashlar, beginning at the north end with a fountain and drinking well set in a large recess. This recess is apsidal with ribs and has a cusped arch opening into a gabled front. The building is angled with steps leading up to a north porch beside it, close to the church steps that ascend to the west end. Six sculptured scenes depicting the Way of the Cross are arranged in gabled recesses, with the seventh scene, the Crucifixion, located in the gable of the north porch of the Parish Church. Pointed arcades connect the scenes, and there is a doorway between the two northernmost scenes.
Local climate
Via Crucis and Fountain receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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