Murray Fountain, James Square, Crieff is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 2002. Fountain. 2 related planning applications.
Murray Fountain, James Square, Crieff
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-ember-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2002
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Murray Fountain, James Square, Crieff, PH7 3EY
- OS grid reference
- NN 863 216
- Coordinates
- 56.37303, -3.84111
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Murray Fountain, located in James Square, Crieff, was designed by sculptor William Mossman and dates from 1893, with installation completed in 1894. It is a three-stage classical memorial fountain made of grey and red granite, featuring marble basins. The fountain has a reducing stepped base that leads to a plinth with central basins and a dog drinking bowl at the eastern angle, topped by a projecting moulded ledge.
The second stage features a tall base with lead lionhead waterspouts set in small niches on each face. The northern face has an inscription that reads, "ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE BURGH OF CRIEFF" and "A RECOGNITION OF MANY BENEFITS RECEIVED FROM THE MURRAYS OF OCHTERTYRE." This stage is adorned with keystoned arches and marble pilasters with floral capitals, supporting a central fountain bowl that transitions into an elaborate cornice. The heavy third stage is decorated with fish tails that form the support for a ball finial and a decorative cast-iron weathervane. The fountain was renovated in 1993.
Local climate
Murray Fountain, James Square, Crieff sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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