Napoleon Pillar off Carsebridge Road, Alloa is a Grade B listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1974. Column.

Napoleon Pillar off Carsebridge Road, Alloa

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 June 1974
Type
Column
OS grid reference
NS 896 935
Coordinates
56.12158, -3.77576
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Napoleon Pillar, located off Carsebridge Road in Alloa, is an antique Roman Doric column that stands approximately 10 feet tall. It features a dome cap atop an abacus, or flat slab, and is believed to date back to the Roman occupation of Egypt.

A plaque on the pillar states that it was captured by Napoleon at Grand Cairo in Egypt in 1798. After being taken by the Allies during its journey to France, it was sent to Florence, where it was purchased by C. E. Dede. The pillar was then forwarded to Altona in Schleswig Holstein, with a note indicating it was presented to John Bald Harvey by Miss Dede on August 14, 1852.

Local climate

Napoleon Pillar off Carsebridge Road, Alloa 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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