Memorial Fountain, Abercorn Park, Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1995. Monument. 1 related planning application.

Memorial Fountain, Abercorn Park, Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
rooted-loggia-auburn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1995
Type
Monument
Address
Memorial Fountain, Abercorn Park, Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh, EH15 2DE
OS grid reference
NT 310 736
Coordinates
55.95092, -3.10622
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Memorial Fountain in Abercorn Park, Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh, was built in 1914. This free-standing monument features two drinking fountains on the west and east sides, with a plaque on the north side. The plaque reads: "This fountain has been erected in remembrance of Dr Hugh Dewar- Portobello- by his grateful patients and numerous friends who deplore the loss in the prime of manhood of a kind and skilled and beloved physician- his quiet charity was known to the needy- 1866-1914." On the south side, there is a bronze relief portrait. The fountain is made of granite, polished at the base level, and includes a moulded base course and an obelisk topped with a ball finial above the dedicatory section.

Local climate

Memorial Fountain, Abercorn Park, Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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