Statue Of Fifth Duke Of Buccleuch, West Parliament Square, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Memorial.

Statue Of Fifth Duke Of Buccleuch, West Parliament Square, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
twelfth-baluster-juniper
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
Memorial
Address
Statue Of Fifth Duke Of Buccleuch, West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, EH1 1RF
OS grid reference
NT 256 735
Coordinates
55.94949, -3.19174
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The statue of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry, created by Sir Joseph Boehm between 1887 and 1888, is an exceptional bronze sculpture located in West Parliament Square, Edinburgh. It stands on a richly ornamented two-stage hexagonal plinth made of ashlar, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson. Each face of the plinth features bronze panels adorned with intricate cresting, showcasing allegorical figures and scenes from the Duke's life, crafted by artists including Clark Stanton, Birnie Rhind, Stuart Burnett, and D W and W G Stevenson. Additionally, there are bronze shields depicting deer at the buttressed corner angles of the plinth.

Local climate

Statue Of Fifth Duke Of Buccleuch, West Parliament Square, 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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