Bridge over Dock feeder including Cast Iron Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Bridge.
Bridge over Dock feeder including Cast Iron Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- peeling-step-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge over Dock feeder including Cast Iron Drinking Fountain, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 767
- Coordinates
- 51.4838, -3.17853
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a Baroque style bridge made of Portland Stone ashlar, featuring rusticated piers. It has a single arch with stepped voussoirs and a keystone. The parapet, also made of Portland stone, includes four rusticated piers on each side. On the eastern parapet, there is a gabled Portland stone frame within a pier that encloses a drinking fountain in a niche. The outer face of the niche is framed by a cast-iron moulded frame with curvilinear edges, inscribed with "Erected by William Alexander Mayor of Cardiff AD 1860," "Cast by the Coalbrookdale Co," and "Wills Brothers, Sculptors, London." The niche features a figure of Jesus Christ on the left and a figure of the Woman of Samaria on the right, illustrating verses 13 and 14 of St John's Gospel, Chapter IV: "Jesus said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst." The decoration includes vine leaves, tendrils, and cherubs, with the figures and decoration highlighted in gold.
Local climate
Bridge over Dock feeder including Cast Iron Drinking Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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.
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