Commemorative Drinking Well, Church Square is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Drinking well. 2 related planning applications.

Commemorative Drinking Well, Church Square

WRENN ID
solitary-cobble-acorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 November 2006
Type
Drinking well
OS grid reference
NO 370 957
Coordinates
57.04894, -3.03958
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Commemorative Drinking Well, located in Church Square, was built in 1884. This prominently situated well features a square plan and a battered Gothic design. It is constructed from coursed, rock-faced grey granite. A battered plinth supports four square-plan columns that hold up a pyramidal canopy, which has blind lucarnes and a foliate finial. The well includes a verdigris flower pattern water spout, accompanied by a commemorative plaque and a granite bowl below. It is enclosed on three sides by a low wall topped with granite coping.

Local climate

Commemorative Drinking Well, Church Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 65 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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