Sinclair Memorial, Church Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Memorial.

Sinclair Memorial, Church Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
lapsed-timber-jackdaw
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 August 1987
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
NX 969 757
Coordinates
55.06551, -3.61495
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Sinclair Memorial, located on Church Street in Dumfries, was designed by John Gregan in 1841. It is an open octagonal temple made of painted stone in the Tuscan style. The structure features a peristyle with one bay filled by a commemorative plaque. It stands on a two-step base and has a low-pitched, facetted slate roof. The memorial includes a statue of "Old Mortality and his Pony," created by the sculptor John Currie of Dumfries.

Local climate

Sinclair Memorial, Church Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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