Fountain in Honour of John Hopkin Davies is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 April 2000. Fountain.
Fountain in Honour of John Hopkin Davies
- WRENN ID
- quiet-flint-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2000
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Fountain in Honour of John Hopkin Davies, Talbot Road
- OS grid reference
- SS 773 890
- Coordinates
- 51.58704, -3.77165
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Fountain in Honour of John Hopkin Davies is a granite water fountain featuring a bronze sculpture, erected in July 1910. It is supported by two square, slightly tapering piers with moulded bases and Tuscan-style capitals adorned with dentils. Above the piers, a lintel with a round arched head has a pronounced hollow moulding on its underside.
The front of the fountain features a stone panel beneath the arch, which displays a bronze bust of John Hopkin Davies in the upper half. To the left side of the bust, there is a relief inscription that reads 'John Hopkin Davies 1910'. Below this, a semi-circular water trough with a wide rim and base extends from the pier bases.
On the rear side of the stone panel beneath the arch, an inscription commemorates Davies: 'This fountain erected to John Hopkin Davies, M D, J P, of Tir Caradoc, Port Talbot, by his many grateful friends and admirers, amongst whom he laboured with unfailing kindness for many years, July 1910'. Below this inscription, a bronze fountain spout is designed in the form of two stylised ram's heads, with a plain semi-circular trough positioned below. The entire structure is set on a platform that is one course high, featuring central semi-circular projections at both the front and rear.
Local climate
Fountain in Honour of John Hopkin Davies sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings