Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Monument.

Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown

WRENN ID
shadowed-spindle-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NX 430 554
Coordinates
54.86876, -4.44739
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Covenanters' Monument and Enclosure, dated 1858, is a classical ashlar monument located at the summit of Windy Hill in Wigtown. The structure features a base course and a pedestal with chamfered angles, which is topped by an entablature adorned with acroteria and stone angle brackets. The monument has an octagonal shaft that tapers and is corniced, culminating in a decorative stone urn finial. One face of the pedestal includes a commemorative panel inscribed to the Wigtown Martyrs, who were Covenanters drowned in the River Bladnoch in 1685 or hanged.

The enclosure consists of spearhead railings that retain a square area around the monument, although some of these railings are now in disrepair.

Local climate

Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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