Drinking Fountain, Dubfermline Public Park, St Margarets Drive, Dunfermline is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1998. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain, Dubfermline Public Park, St Margarets Drive, Dunfermline
- WRENN ID
- iron-moat-lichen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1998
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- NT 097 875
- Coordinates
- 56.07219, -3.45141
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The drinking fountain in Dunfermline Public Park was designed by Robert Cameron in 1887. It features a three-stage, square plan with chamfered angles, constructed from polished pink granite. Each side has a pedimented niche, and the fountain stands on an octagonal stone base with semicircular steps on either side.
Each niche includes a shell-headed design with a cast-iron lion's head waterspout and a rounded basin. Flanking pilasters rise to a broken-bed pediment supported by consoles. There are panelled pilasters that extend to the cornice at the level of the pediment at each corner, with fluted consoles at the base.
The upper stage, also dated 1887, has a tapered concave profile with curved panels on each side, and the angles are scrolled at both the base and apex. The apex features a moulded cap adorned with scrolls at the corners and is topped by a bronze lion holding a heraldic shield. There is a band course at each of the lower levels and at the base of the upper stage.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, Dubfermline Public Park, St Margarets Drive, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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