Stewart Memorial Fountain, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Stewart Memorial Fountain, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- knotted-frieze-briar
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- NS 571 662
- Coordinates
- 55.86806, -4.28384
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Stewart Memorial Fountain, located in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, was designed by architect James Sellars and sculpted by John Mossman in 1872, with bronze work by H Pringle & Co. This elaborately carved Gothic fountain is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features granite, marble, and majolica dressings, along with cast-bronze sculptures.
The fountain consists of three tiered basins, with the middle basin showcasing inset flying buttresses supported by lions seated on plinths. At the center, a shaft rises to hold a bronze statue of a draped female figure. The outer basin at ground level is made of plain grey granite, while the main inner basin is crafted from ashlar and includes four small aedicule features resembling wall-tombs or reliquaries. These features are supported by marble colonnettes and topped with pediments on either side of a bronze panel set within an ogival frame.
A "fish scale" ogee canopy connects the two pediments. The four semi-circular bronze panels on the inner basin feature medallion portraits of Stewart and a dedicatory inscription on the north and south sides, while the east and west sides depict symbolic bas-reliefs representing Loch Katrine and Glasgow, and the Lady of the Lake, respectively. Additionally, the middle basin includes ceramic roundel insets of zodiacal signs.
Local climate
Stewart Memorial Fountain, Kelvingrove Park, 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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