War Memorial, Dell Road Cemetery, Colinton, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 November 2003. War memorial.
War Memorial, Dell Road Cemetery, Colinton, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- riven-vestry-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 November 2003
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 215 690
- Coordinates
- 55.90843, -3.25581
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial at Dell Road Cemetery in Colinton, Edinburgh, was built around 1920. It has a rectangular, plinth-shaped design and features a channelled ashlar sarcophagus with a base course and a bracketed cornice, raised on two steps. The front of the memorial displays a central bronze plaque dedicated to soldiers of the Great War, framed by a moulded stone surround with reliefs on either side. On the rear, there is another bronze plaque dedicated to soldiers of World War II, inscribed with the words: "NOTHING IS HERE FOR TEARS. NOTHING TO WAIL, DISPRAISE, OR BLAME. NOTHING BUT WELL AND FAIR, AND WHAT MAY QUIET US IN A DEATH SO NOBLE." The memorial is topped with a short pedestal that has canted corners, standing on three steps, and bears the inscription: "IN MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PARISH OF COLINTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR."
Local climate
War Memorial, Dell Road Cemetery, Colinton, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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