War Memorial, Hermitage Park, Helensburgh is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1993. War memorial, walled garden. 1 related planning application.

War Memorial, Hermitage Park, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
blind-vestry-vermeil
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1993
Type
War memorial, walled garden
OS grid reference
NS 299 828
Coordinates
56.00825, -4.72826
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial in Hermitage Park, Helensburgh, was designed by A N Paterson and completed in 1922. It is situated facing an ornamental rectangular pond within a walled garden that features ornamental gates.

The memorial has a cream sandstone ashlar construction, with a stepped base and a tall plinth topped by a domed rotunda that includes arcades. In every second bay of the rotunda, there are ashlar urns adorned with flaming torches. The dome itself is made of ashlar and is decorated with copper leaves.

Surrounding the memorial are rubble boundary walls, along with fine two-leaf cast-iron gates and railings that feature decorative elements such as wreaths, palm leaves, and thistle wreaths. The memorial was unveiled on 25 June 1992.

Local climate

War Memorial, Hermitage Park, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 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 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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