Rutherford's Monument, Anwoth is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Monument.
Rutherford's Monument, Anwoth
- WRENN ID
- scarred-lime-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NX 587 558
- Coordinates
- 54.87716, -4.20296
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rutherford's Monument is a granite obelisk erected in 1842, standing 56 feet high on a hill that overlooks Fleet Bay. It commemorates Samuel Rutherford, who was an author and minister in Anwoth from 1627 to 1639. The monument features a bull-faced granite stepped base and plinth, which has an inscribed panel on the south side, supporting the tall polished granite obelisk above.
Local climate
Rutherford's Monument, Anwoth sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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