Ironwork Fountain Canopy is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Fountain canopy.
Ironwork Fountain Canopy
- WRENN ID
- fossil-spindle-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Fountain canopy
- Address
- Ironwork Fountain Canopy, Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74308, -3.37745
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Ironwork Fountain Canopy is an octagonal, openwork iron structure made up of sections. It features a circular ribbed dome that is decorated with interlaced foliage trails and topped with a heroic classical figure. The canopy includes filigree spandrels supporting cusped arcades that have rope-mouldings, circular armorials, and guilloche bands. At the corners, there are griffin finials positioned over volute brackets, and the leaf shafts are adorned with polygonal foliage capitals and a foliage frieze above square bases.
Local climate
Ironwork Fountain Canopy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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