Whitelaw Memorial Fountain, Main Street is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 June 2006. Fountain.
Whitelaw Memorial Fountain, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- former-steel-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Coatbridge and Bellshill MP: Frank McNally (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 June 2006
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- NS 731 651
- Coordinates
- 55.86234, -4.02875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Whitelaw Memorial Fountain, designed by Hugh H MacLure in 1875, is an ornately carved water fountain made of pink and grey granite. It features a tall square plan and is prominently located at the head of Main Street. The fountain has a tall channelled pedestal with squared corners, an indented cornice, and a chamfered plinth. The pedestal is decorated with banded plain rustication, diamond-pointed rusticated quoins, and circles on the top course. It includes semi-circular pink granite basins with carved lion-head spouts and plaques on each side. The structure is supported by four square Corinthian columns that hold up a pendentive arched canopy, which has modillion keystones and a heavy dentilled cornice leading to an octagonal, carved, scalloped dome above. Fluted urns are placed at the chamfered angles, with a corresponding urn at the apex.
Local climate
Whitelaw Memorial Fountain, Main Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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