War Memorial, Esplanade, Campbeltown is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. War memorial.

War Memorial, Esplanade, Campbeltown

WRENN ID
seventh-iron-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NR 720 207
Coordinates
55.42727, -5.60435
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial on the Esplanade in Campbeltown was designed by A N Paterson in 1923. It is a substantial stone tower made of green bull-faced squared and snecked stone, featuring a square plan. The memorial has a battered base and diagonally placed buttresses at each corner, with white marble plaques commemorating those who died in the Second World War added to each buttress. The corners are rounded above the buttresses. Each face of the memorial has green slabs with inscriptions, with the eastern face recessed over a white marble plaque. Above this, there is a bracketed ledge with a tall round-arched recess that contains a contrasting granite stone cross relief. The memorial is topped with a stepped pyramidal design surmounted by a small stone cross.

Local climate

War Memorial, Esplanade, Campbeltown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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