Fountain And Market Cross, The Square, Errol is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Market cross and water fountain. 1 related planning application.
Fountain And Market Cross, The Square, Errol
- WRENN ID
- under-pedestal-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- Market cross and water fountain
- OS grid reference
- NO 250 227
- Coordinates
- 56.39128, -3.21531
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Fountain and Market Cross in The Square, Errol, was designed by Johnston & Baxter of Dundee in 1900, with the sculptor being Alexander Neilson from Dundee. It features a red Dumfries sandstone columnar market cross topped with a bronze unicorn finial. At the base, there are Peterhead granite basins, which include small drinking troughs for dogs that receive overflow from the trefoil-plan basins situated below a circular pedestal. The pedestal has a carved lion's head fountain and two bronze panels. One panel displays a crown, the initials 'VR', and the dates '1837-1897' in relief, while the other is inscribed with the message: 'THIS WATER-SUPPLY PRESENTED TO ERROL DISTRICT BY SIR WILLIAM AND LADY OGILVY DALGLEISH OF ERROL, 1897'. Above the pedestal, a moulded cornice leads to a battered column adorned with carved thistles and an Ionic capital, all topped by the unicorn holding a shield.
Local climate
Fountain And Market Cross, The Square, Errol receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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