Drinking Fountain, Govan Cross, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1987. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.

Drinking Fountain, Govan Cross, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sombre-string-holly
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 May 1987
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
NS 554 657
Coordinates
55.86306, -4.31114
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The drinking fountain at Govan Cross in Glasgow was created by Cruikshanks and Co from Denny Iron Works in 1884. It features a cast-iron design with a small boy standing on a rock in an upturned dish. This central figure is surrounded by a hexagonal arcade supported by six cast-iron columns, each adorned with bell capitals and inward-facing mythological beasts. These columns carry drop-traceried cusped arches, which are topped with decorative brattishing and plaques displaying the Arms of Govan, as well as symbols of the Masonic and Oddfellow societies, along with a dedication to John Aitkin, MD. The fountain is crowned with a cast-iron ogee fish-scale roof and an elaborate finial.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain, Govan Cross, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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