2Nd Viscount Robert Melville Statue, Melville 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.

2Nd Viscount Robert Melville Statue, Melville Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lesser-roof-mint
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
OS grid reference
NT 242 736
Coordinates
55.94966, -3.21396
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The statue of Robert Viscount Melville, created by John Steele in 1857, is a pedestrian bronze statue located at the center of Melville Crescent in Edinburgh. It stands on a large sandstone ashlar plinth that is stepped at the base and features a cornice at the top of the pedestal. Above the cornice is a further plinth that supports the bronze statue. The figure of Viscount Melville is depicted leaning on a bronze plinth to the left, holding a scroll in his right hand. An inscription in bronze on the plinth reads: "Robert Viscount Melville, Born 14th March 1771 Died 10th June 1851."

Local climate

2Nd Viscount Robert Melville Statue, Melville 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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