Taylor Well, Duthie Park, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 February 2000. Well.
Taylor Well, Duthie Park, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- distant-flagstone-plover
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2000
- Type
- Well
- OS grid reference
- NJ 937 044
- Coordinates
- 57.13129, -2.10467
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Taylor Well, located in Duthie Park, Aberdeen, is a finely finished grey granite well built in the later 19th century. It has a rectangular plan and features a drinking fountain and a dog basin on the east side, along with a trough on the west side. The fountain and trough are adorned with lion and leopard masks that represent the Aberdeen coat of arms. A scrolled pediment separates the drinking fountain from the trough. On the east side, there is an inscription that reads, "Erected to the memory of Alexander Taylor, Merchant in Aberdeen by his daughter, Jane Forbes Taylor, Morkeu, Cults." The west side bears the inscription, "He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small." The structure is topped with an urn that has carved masks.
Local climate
Taylor Well, Duthie Park, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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