Heart Of Midlothian War Memorial, Haymarket, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 February 1993. War memorial.
Heart Of Midlothian War Memorial, Haymarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- distant-string-meadow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1993
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 241 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94626, -3.21646
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Heart of Midlothian War Memorial, designed by Harry Snell Gamley between 1921 and 1922, is located at Haymarket in Edinburgh. This war memorial features a moulded rectangular-section pedestal and a chamfered, corniced ashlar shaft. The east and west faces are round-arched and hold a clock, with decorative panels below. At the top, there is a squat obelisk resting on a base above an extended pedestal and plinth.
On the east face, there is a long panel below the clock, framed at the top and sides by a stylised wreath. This panel features a bronze plaque dedicated to casualties from 1914 to 1919, located at the bottom centre. The corners are chamfered and adorned with lions' heads holding laurel wreaths at the level of the clock. Below this, there are five tablets, each carved with the name of a famous battle.
The west face mirrors the east face but is plain below the clock, featuring a plaque dedicated to casualties from 1939 to 1945. The north and south faces of the memorial are plain and much narrower.
Local climate
Heart Of Midlothian War Memorial, Haymarket, 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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