War Memorial And Garden, Durie Street, Leven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. War memorial, garden.
War Memorial And Garden, Durie Street, Leven
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-passage-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1999
- Type
- War memorial, garden
- OS grid reference
- NO 383 009
- Coordinates
- 56.19756, -2.99532
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial and Garden on Durie Street in Leven was built around 1920, with a boundary wall memorial added in 1950. The main feature is an obelisk war memorial made of granite on an ashlar base.
The World War I monument consists of a large raised ashlar plinth with steps at the outer angles, leading to a stepped polygonal base and pedestal. This pedestal includes a Roll of Honour and a cornice, with a tablet inscribed:
'IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE FROM
THE PARISH OF SCOONIE WHO FELL
IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-18'
located at the base of the obelisk.
To the left and right of the memorial, there is a boundary wall made of stepped, coped ashlar, dated '1939' on the left and '1945' on the right. The center features a moulded panel with four bronze plaques that bear the Roll of Honour, alongside a similar plaque that reads:
'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL
MEMORY OF THOSE OF THE PARISH OF
SCOONIE WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR
1939-1945'.
Local climate
War Memorial And Garden, Durie Street, Leven receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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