Catherine Sinclair Monument, North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Monument.

Catherine Sinclair Monument, North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-granite-tarn
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Monument
Address
Catherine Sinclair Monument, North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4HR
OS grid reference
NT 246 740
Coordinates
55.95319, -3.20762
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Catherine Sinclair Monument, located on North Charlotte Street in Edinburgh, was designed by David Bryce and constructed between 1866 and 1868, with sculptural work by John Rhind. This cream sandstone monument is of the Gothic style and resembles an Eleanor Cross. It stands on a stepped hexagonal pedestal and features a hexagonal structure with three receding stages that are blind arcaded. The monument is topped with a crocketed pinnacle. Each bay contains a colonnetted pointed arch niche, along with a gable that is both crocketed and finialed. The design includes dividing buttresses, with gableheads at the first stage adorned with trefoils and at the second stage featuring the monogram "CS." There is also a later inscription at the base of the monument.

Local climate

Catherine Sinclair Monument, North Charlotte Street, 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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