Forbes Of Newe Obelisk, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1984. Obelisk. 1 related planning application.

Forbes Of Newe Obelisk, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
deep-sentry-linden
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 April 1984
Type
Obelisk
Address
Forbes Of Newe Obelisk, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZH
OS grid reference
NJ 929 071
Coordinates
57.15531, -2.11798
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Forbes of Newe Obelisk, located at the Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen, was designed by John Smith in 1830. This obelisk is made of pink granite ashlar and features a square-plan base topped with three granite steps on a splayed plinth. Each side of the obelisk has recessed tooled grey granite panels that commemorate John Forbes of Newe, Charles Forbes of Newe, and the establishment of the Royal Cornhill Asylum.

Local climate

Forbes Of Newe Obelisk, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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 0.2°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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