Drinking Fountain, Cathedral Green, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Drinking fountain.

Drinking Fountain, Cathedral Green, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
ruined-moat-honey
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1999
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
HY 448 108
Coordinates
58.98136, -2.9606
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The drinking fountain, located on Cathedral Green in Kirkwall, dates from the late 19th to early 20th century. It is made of grey and pink polished granite and is positioned to the west of St Magnus Cathedral. The fountain features a square-plan pedestal set on a stepped base, with drinking bowls on the northeast and southwest faces. The other two faces have blank round-arched plaques. It has a cornice with a block-pedimented design and a tapering column topped with an urn finial. The column is decorated with an inscised band.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain, Cathedral Green, Kirkwall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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