Railings And Gate, Boundary Wall, Covenanters' Memorial, Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Memorial.
Railings And Gate, Boundary Wall, Covenanters' Memorial, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- idle-merlon-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94783, -3.19464
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The railings and gate, boundary wall, and Covenanters' Memorial located in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh were constructed in 1937 and again in 1953-1954. The memorial features a roughly-hewn raised cylinder with an inset granite circle and a Saltire cross, which is surrounded by a bronze circular inscription from 1937. The boundary wall is made of squared and snecked hammered sandstone and is topped with coped piers. Additionally, there are cast-iron railings and gates that incorporate Saltire crosses and thistles, designed by the City Engineer in 1953-1954.
Local climate
Railings And Gate, Boundary Wall, Covenanters' Memorial, Grassmarket, 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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