Colonel Shand's Monument, Templeland is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Colonel Shand's Monument, Templeland
- WRENN ID
- leaning-balcony-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 628 416
- Coordinates
- 57.4637, -2.62097
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument is an obelisk constructed of rock-faced courses, topped with a ball finial, standing on a tall, inscribed base. It was erected to commemorate Colonel Alexander Shand of Templeland, who died in 1803. The inscription records his military career, noting he began his service in the Royal Artillery as a private, fought at Corbach and the Brandywine River, and rose to the rank of full colonel. Further details were reported in the Press and Journal on November 14th, 1964.
Local climate
Colonel Shand's Monument, Templeland receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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