The Scottish Martyrs Memorial, Nunhead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Memorial. 2 related planning applications.

The Scottish Martyrs Memorial, Nunhead Cemetery

WRENN ID
cold-flint-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Memorial
Address
The Scottish Martyrs Memorial, Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, SE15 3LP
OS grid reference
TQ 353 756
Coordinates
51.4637, -0.05317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Scottish Martyrs Memorial is an obelisk located in Nunhead Cemetery, constructed in 1851. It is made of granite and stands 10 meters high on a square base, featuring inscriptions on each side. The memorial is enclosed by low twisted iron rails supported by squat corner posts. It was funded by public donations raised by Radical MP Joseph Hume after a public meeting in 1837, to honor five men—Thomas Muir, Thomas Palmer, Joseph Gerrald, William Skirving, and Maurice Margarot—who were sentenced to transportation for sedition between 1793 and 1794. A similar monument was erected on Calton Hill in Edinburgh in 1837.

Local climate

The Scottish Martyrs Memorial, Nunhead Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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