Parish War Memorial, Queen's Road, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1988. War memorial. 1 related planning application.

Parish War Memorial, Queen's Road, Dunbar

WRENN ID
drifting-outpost-linden
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 January 1988
Type
War memorial
Address
Parish War Memorial, Queen's Road, Dunbar, EH42 1LN
OS grid reference
NT 681 786
Coordinates
55.99958, -2.51189
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Parish War Memorial, located on Queen's Road in Dunbar, was designed by C S S Johnston in 1902. It is situated by the north gate of the Parish Church. The memorial features an obelisk made of Corsehill sandstone, which is adorned with decorative swags on its pedestal and is accessed by a flight of steps. It is dedicated to the Yeomanry of Lothian and Berwickshire who fell in South Africa.

Local climate

Parish War Memorial, Queen's Road, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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