Fountain in Aberdare Park is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Fountain.

Fountain in Aberdare Park

WRENN ID
silent-hammer-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 January 1991
Type
Fountain
Address
Fountain in Aberdare Park, Trecynon, Aberdare West, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
SN 995 030
Coordinates
51.71746, -3.45616
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The fountain in Aberdare Park is a tall and colorful structure featuring classical details and a broad circular basin. At the top, it has a statue of Liberty positioned over a scalloped smaller basin with a beaded underside. Below this, a cylindrical column emerges, adorned with daffodils and swans resting on a bed of water lilies. The larger basin has a petalled edge and is supported above a drum base, which is decorated with detached columns featuring foliage capitals and other leafy details. The fountain includes encrusted plasterwork with classical figures. There are axial projections extending from each column, each featuring large dolphins with putti on their backs, and lion heads positioned at the angles between these arms. The outer rim of the main basin is roll-moulded at the top and ramps outwards, decorated with sunflower roses, linking bosses, and strapwork.

Local climate

Fountain in Aberdare Park 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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