Stalcaire Memorial, Battle of Stalc, St Cross Church, Appin is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 November 1989. Memorial.

Stalcaire Memorial, Battle of Stalc, St Cross Church, Appin

WRENN ID
gentle-entrance-pine
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 November 1989
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
NM 927 472
Coordinates
56.57143, -5.3759
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Stalcaire Memorial, located at St Cross Church in Appin, was erected around 1910. It is a roughly hewn granite obelisk featuring an inscribed plinth and a stepped base. The inscription reads: "A. D. 1468. Above this spot was fought the bloody battle of Stalc, in which many hundreds fell, when the Stewarts and the Maclarens, their allies, in defence of Dugald, chief of Appin, son of Sir John Stewart, Lord of Lorn and Innermeath, defeated the combined forces of the Macdougalls and the Macfarlanes."

Local climate

Stalcaire Memorial, Battle of Stalc, St Cross Church, Appin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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