Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain, Overtoun Park, Rutherglen, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 April 1974. Fountain.

Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain, Overtoun Park, Rutherglen, Glasgow

WRENN ID
half-entrance-ash
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 April 1974
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NS 614 609
Coordinates
55.82196, -4.21339
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain, located in Overtoun Park, Rutherglen, Glasgow, was built in 1897 by the Saracen foundry. This cast-iron fountain features a circular temple design with arcaded openings supported by slender columns. Above, it has an open-worked dome adorned with crests, and there is a fountain situated underneath.

Local climate

Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain, Overtoun Park, Rutherglen, Glasgow 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 greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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