Macdonald's Fountain, Gleniffer Road, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Fountain.
Macdonald's Fountain, Gleniffer Road, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- quiet-spire-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1980
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- NS 457 607
- Coordinates
- 55.8154, -4.46361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Macdonald's Fountain, located on Gleniffer Road in Paisley, was designed by Angus Ferguson in 1883. The fountain features an irregular arrangement of rubble blocks and includes a basin with a concave retaining wall behind it. On this wall, there is a bronze portrait plaque created by sculptor John Mossman in 1872, which is fixed onto a polished granite rounded surface. The plaque also has carved lettering on a roundel.
Local climate
Macdonald's Fountain, Gleniffer Road, Paisley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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