Fountain in Botanical Gardens, Singleton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 November 1993. Fountain. 1 related planning application.

Fountain in Botanical Gardens, Singleton Park

WRENN ID
scarred-frieze-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 November 1993
Type
Fountain
Address
Fountain in Botanical Gardens, Singleton Park, Sketty
OS grid reference
SS 629 925
Coordinates
51.61482, -3.98148
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The fountain in the Botanical Gardens at Singleton Park is an octagonal lead basin set on a stone plinth. It is dated 1773, but the current arrangement featuring a central group of cherubs is modern; the fountain originally stood in Swansea Castle Gardens. Each side of the basin has vertical bands of classicising relief decoration, with two lugged panels that display the date along with low reliefs of female figures, swags, shells, and other motifs. Between the panels, there is palmette decoration and the initials ‘LC’. The modern central group consists of three cherubs.

Local climate

Fountain in Botanical Gardens, Singleton Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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