Temperance Drinking Fountain, Duthie Park, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 February 2000. Drinking fountain.

Temperance Drinking Fountain, Duthie Park, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
endless-chamber-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 February 2000
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
NJ 936 044
Coordinates
57.13129, -2.10599
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Temperance Drinking Fountain in Duthie Park, Aberdeen, was designed by James Hunter in 1883. It is made of polished granite and features a circular plinth set on flagstones. The fountain has tooled inscriptions that read, "In commemoration of the advance of temperance under the auspices of the Aberdeen Temperance Society in the year 1882" and "Thou givest them water for their thirst, IPH 9-20." The basin is made of polished pink granite and is supported by three granite columns that hold up a grey granite canopy topped with a spherical finial. Additionally, there are square pink granite plinths that support pink granite urns located to the north, west, and east of the fountain.

Local climate

Temperance Drinking Fountain, 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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