Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Fountain.
Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- nether-rotunda-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Memorial Fountain, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 217 184
- Coordinates
- 51.85895, -3.13717
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a Gothic-style polygonal drinking fountain, built as a memorial. It features a tall unpolished grey granite stem that stands on a stepped platform, topped with crucifix finials. Above the stem is a band of cusped gablets, with attached shafts and bell bases on each face. The square base has advanced gabled niches and lion fountain heads that once held bronze cups, leading to broad quatrefoil-shaped basins below, supported by free-standing low columns. The water pipe was laid by Sir Joseph Bailey. An inscribed band in black lettering reads: "In memory of Henry John Lucas MD. Born July 3rd 1804, died Decbr 29th 1873."
Local climate
Memorial Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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