Moffat's Monument, Main Street, Ormiston is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Monument.

Moffat's Monument, Main Street, Ormiston

WRENN ID
half-chalk-grain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NT 416 693
Coordinates
55.91356, -2.93545
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Moffat's Monument, located on Main Street in Ormiston, is a 21-foot high obelisk made of polished pink granite from Peterhead, designed by D W Stevenson in 1885. The monument commemorates the work of Robert Moffat, a missionary. It features a stepped plinth and has round arched faces on the pedestal. One face displays a bronze alto-rilievo portrait of Moffat, while the other two faces feature commemorative inscriptions. The obelisk rises above the pedestal.

Local climate

Moffat's Monument, Main Street, Ormiston receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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