Memorial Cross, Dunlossit House, Port Askaig, Islay is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 September 2000. Memorial cross.
Memorial Cross, Dunlossit House, Port Askaig, Islay
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-spire-indigo
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 September 2000
- Type
- Memorial cross
- OS grid reference
- NR 429 691
- Coordinates
- 55.8472, -6.10875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The memorial cross at Dunlossit House in Port Askaig, Islay, was likely designed by Sir John James Burnet around 1900. This carved stone Celtic cross, which includes the shaft, is dedicated to the Gilmour family and is located at the western end of the track west of Port Askaig and northwest of Dunlossit House. The rectangular stone shaft features roll moulded edges and a frame around the panels, with the lower limb of the cross remaining, which is a cross patee, along with the stump of an encircling ring. The shaft displays a panel of intricate swirling Celtic carvings below a smaller panel that depicts a seated winged female holding a baby in her lap, flanked by two large winged cherubs. Additionally, there is an entwined snake carving on the remnant of the cross limb and a guilloche pattern on the encircling band.
Local climate
Memorial Cross, Dunlossit House, Port Askaig, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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