Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. Public fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- waiting-thatch-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1995
- Type
- Public fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Bwlch-Y-Cibau, Meifod
- OS grid reference
- SJ 178 174
- Coordinates
- 52.74836, -3.21886
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This public drinking fountain, built around 1895, is made of ashlar limestone and designed as a wall with offsetting ends that rise to gabled copings. The central section extends a further course and is similarly coped, featuring a triangular gablet. At the center, there is a two-centred chamfered arched recess that houses the water source, which is piped through from the back and flows into a cantilevered semi-circular bowl. This bowl is finely decorated with fin-de-siècle leaves and has an inscription around the rim that reads "IN REMEMBRANCE OF MAE---R WILLIAMS BRYNGWYN." Above the arch, there is an inscription that states, "WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER SHALL THIRST AGAIN: BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKETH THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL NEVER THIRST."
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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