War Memorial, The Square, Tarland is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 2003. War memorial.

War Memorial, The Square, Tarland

WRENN ID
still-shingle-vale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 2003
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NJ 480 043
Coordinates
57.12751, -2.85946
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial in The Square, Tarland, was created by sculptor Robert Warwick Morrison in 1920, working for Stewart and Co. It features a tapered, square-plan column on a double plinth, which supports a full-sized statue of a Gordon Highlander resting on his rifle. The memorial is made of rusticated granite and includes polished granite name plaques that display the parish roll of honour. The column is inscribed at the top with the words, 'WE GRATEFULLY REMEMBER ALL THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR'.

Local climate

War Memorial, The Square, Tarland sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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