Kilmarnock, Elmbank Drive, War Memorial is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Kilmarnock, Elmbank Drive, War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- pitched-frieze-hawthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2002
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- NS 432 378
- Coordinates
- 55.60869, -4.49063
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kilmarnock War Memorial, designed by James Miller in 1927 and sculpted by David McGill, is a three-bay, rectangular-plan structure in a stripped classical style. It is constructed from polished yellow sandstone ashlar and features a base course, a banded rusticated architrave, a frieze, an entablature, and a cornice with a dentilled soffit that runs across three elevations, supporting a large, blind parapet.
On the southeast (principal) elevation, the slightly projecting facade includes a recessed central entrance with steps and a ramp, featuring a glazed two-leaf door with a fanlight. Fluted Ionic columns in antis frame the entrance, with flanking bays that have Doric pilasters and a single rectangular window in each bay. The southwest elevation has a single rectangular window in the center, while the northwest (rear) elevation is blind. The northeast elevation also features a single rectangular window in the center. Geometric patterned metal guards are present on the windows and door.
Inside, there is a marble cross at the center of a stone-laid floor, and a bronze statue of 'Victor' is located at the center of the rear wall. Above the statue is an inscribed plaque that reads, 'In everlasting memory of the men and women of Kilmarnock who gave their lives in the service of their country,' with memorial name boards flanking it to the left and right.
Local climate
Kilmarnock, Elmbank Drive, War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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