South African War Memorial To Black Watch, Market Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Memorial.

South African War Memorial To Black Watch, Market Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
NT 255 736
Coordinates
55.95012, -3.19455
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The South African War Memorial to the Black Watch, located on Market Street in Edinburgh, was designed by W. Birnie Rhind and constructed between 1908 and 1910. The memorial features a bronze figure of a soldier dressed in a kilt and busby, leaning on a rifle, which stands on a red granite plinth. Above the figure is a Doric entablature that includes triglyphs and guttae. The memorial also displays a bronze low relief depicting a battle scene, along with a bronze crest and inscriptions.

Local climate

South African War Memorial To Black Watch, Market 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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