War Memorial, Church Road, Rhu is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1994. War memorial.

War Memorial, Church Road, Rhu

WRENN ID
errant-courtyard-burdock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1994
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NS 267 839
Coordinates
56.01698, -4.781
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial located on Church Road in Rhu was designed by A N Paterson and Stoddart around 1920. It is situated in the village green outside the south wall of the Church of Scotland churchyard. The memorial is made of granite with polished granite dressings and features a Celtic cross adorned with panels of interlacing designs, along with a wreath on the lowest panel of the shaft. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the pedestal base, which includes the phrase "greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friend" on the lowest panel. Surrounding the memorial is a low rubble boundary wall with harl pointing and semicircular rubble coping, and there are two steps that lead up to the memorial.

Local climate

War Memorial, Church Road, Rhu sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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