War Memorial, Church Street, Inverkeithing is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 2004. War memorial.
War Memorial, Church Street, Inverkeithing
- WRENN ID
- seventh-copper-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 August 2004
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Church Street, Inverkeithing, KY11 1LQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 130 829
- Coordinates
- 56.03192, -3.39671
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial on Church Street in Inverkeithing was designed by Peter Reid in 1923, with additional commemorative plaques added after 1945. This granite monolithic memorial features an elongated, moulded Celtic Cross on a splayed foot, which is adorned with a carving of a wreath on the west side. The cross stands atop a tall, chamfered, and stepped square pedestal. Each face of the pedestal has bronze plaques that commemorate the names of fallen servicemen and women. The west plaque is inscribed with "TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING MEMORY / OF THE MEN / OF INVERKEITHING AND / DISTRICT WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919," while the east plaque reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING MEMORY / OF THE MEN & WOMEN / OF INVERKEITHING AND / DISTRICT WHO FELL IN / THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945." Below each bronze panel, there are small oval copper discs featuring a moulded image of a ship, which is the official symbol of Inverkeithing Burgh. Additionally, the foot of the pedestal is carved with the lettering "THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE."
Local climate
War Memorial, Church Street, Inverkeithing receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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