Clackmannan Mercat Cross is a Grade A listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1960.

Clackmannan Mercat Cross

WRENN ID
pale-mortar-claret
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1960
OS grid reference
NS 911 918
Coordinates
56.1073, -3.75241
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Clackmannan Tolbooth is a historic building with a belfry tower that was constructed around 1680, representing the surviving west end of the tolbooth originally built in 1592. The structure is approximately square in plan and made of buff-coloured rubble with sandstone dressings and grey off-set quoins. The plain walls rise to a moulded cornice, and the roof features an ogival spire topped with a weathercock. The south wall has a door, while the lower stages include rectangular openings and round arched openings at the belfry stage. There are clock faces, likely from the 19th century, on the east and west sides. The gable wall has strip quoins.

The Clackmannan Market Cross, believed to date from the 17th century, features a square stone shaft with chamfered corners that tapers at the bottom and has a trefoil capital. The east and west faces of the capital display weathered coats of arms, including the chief and saltire of the Bruce of Clackmannan, with the east side still partially visible. The ball finial is a replacement from either 1887 or 1897. The cross stands on an octagonal eight-coursed stone base, which replaced similar steps in 2007, and the second step from the top on the south side is inscribed 'MMVII'.

The Clackmannan Stone, believed to date from the third or second millennium BC, was broken into pieces early on and bound together with iron rods. It is supported by a massive irregularly shaped whinstone block that was erected in 1833.

Local climate

Clackmannan Mercat Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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