Statue, Courtyard, City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Statue.

Statue, Courtyard, City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
slow-bonework-brook
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Statue
Address
Statue, Courtyard, City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ
OS grid reference
NT 257 736
Coordinates
55.95009, -3.19027
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a bronze statue of Alexander, created by Sir John Steell. The statue was modeled in 1832 and cast in 1883. It stands on a corniced, bow-ended ashlar plinth. The figure depicts a draped pedestrian figure of Alexander alongside a rearing, unharnessed horse.

Local climate

Statue, Courtyard, City Chambers, High 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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