War Memorial, Park Place, Thornton is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. War memorial.

War Memorial, Park Place, Thornton

WRENN ID
quartered-newel-tarn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1996
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NT 290 975
Coordinates
56.16539, -3.14461
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial at Park Place in Thornton, dating from around 1920, features decorative cast iron gates alongside square ashlar gatepiers topped with ball finials. The outer wings include cast iron pedestrian gates. On the west elevation, bronze plaques on each pier commemorate the First World War, specifically the years 1914 to 1919 and the King's Own Scottish Borderers. The east elevation has bronze plaques on each pier that commemorate the Second World War, covering the years 1939 to 1945, which were presumably added around 1945.

Local climate

War Memorial, Park Place, Thornton receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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