Royal Scots Monument, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 2001. Memorial. 1 related planning application.

Royal Scots Monument, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
broken-landing-finch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 October 2001
Type
Memorial
Address
Royal Scots Monument, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, EH2 2HG
OS grid reference
NT 253 737
Coordinates
55.95105, -3.19727
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Royal Scots Monument, located in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, was designed by Frank Mears and Partners along with C d'Orville Pilkington Jackson in 1950. This monument features a semicircular enclosure surrounded by rectangular standing stones, which have low relief panels created by Jackson that illustrate the history of the Regiment. The stones are connected by metal grilles that display inscriptions and medallions. At the center of the monument is a stone that lists the names of the campaigns in which the Regiment participated, along with a bronze plaque featuring a crown, initials, and the insignia of George VI.

Local climate

Royal Scots Monument, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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