War Memorial, Castle Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cenotaph, war memorial.

War Memorial, Castle Street, Banff

WRENN ID
rusted-brick-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Cenotaph, war memorial
OS grid reference
NJ 688 642
Coordinates
57.66685, -2.52352
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial on Castle Street in Banff was designed by Dr. William Kelly and constructed between 1920 and 1921. It is a polished pale grey granite ashlar cenotaph that stands on shallow steps, surrounded by a shallow hemicycle wall made of similar pale granite, featuring some contrasting darker, bull-faced granite blocks. The memorial includes plaques that record the names of the fallen from the years 1914 to 1919 and 1939 to 1945, which are set into the outer ends of the hemicycle. The center portion is made of chequered granite blocks with voids that provide glimpses of Banff Bay to the east.

Local climate

War Memorial, Castle Street, Banff receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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