St Leonard's Fountain, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 October 2003. Fountain.

St Leonard's Fountain, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 October 2003
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NT 269 727
Coordinates
55.94182, -3.17121
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Leonard's Fountain, located in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Morham and completed in 1886. This fountain is made of pink Peterhead granite and features a large, deep octagonal panelled basin. At the center stands a bulbous column that tapers to an octagonal top, adorned with bronze lion faucets. The base course includes semi-circular drainage bowls. The fountain bears a monogram inscription along with the date of its construction. As of 2007, the basin is currently filled in.

Local climate

St Leonard's Fountain, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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