Mary Short Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House.

Mary Short Memorial Drinking Fountain

WRENN ID
unlit-marble-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Mary Short Memorial Drinking Fountain, St. Asaph
OS grid reference
SJ 036 742
Coordinates
53.25661, -3.44615
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Mary Short Memorial Drinking Fountain is a structure featuring polygonal piers at both ends, topped with a stepped parapet. A tablet is set into broad foliage with a trailing border, inscribed with biblical messages. In the center, there is a lion's head that serves as the fountain spout, which originally had a chain and a cup that is now missing. The fountain also includes a low basin with a trefoil scalloped design.

Local climate

Mary Short Memorial Drinking Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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