War Memorial, Rossland Place, Kinghorn is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Memorial.
War Memorial, Rossland Place, Kinghorn
- WRENN ID
- cold-pedestal-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2000
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 868
- Coordinates
- 56.06899, -3.17606
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial located at Rossland Place in Kinghorn was designed by William Williamson in 1922, with the sculptor being Alexander Carrick from Edinburgh. This memorial honors those who served in World War I and includes a roll of honor for World War II. It is constructed from polished ashlar and features a monumental square-section, single-stage plinth. The base has a roll-moulded band course and stepped coping stone, leading to a statue depicting a Black Watch soldier and a kneeling naval rating, with shell cases positioned behind them.
On the northeast elevation, there is an incised stone near the base that reads 'FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH', which is accompanied by an inset bronze plaque listing the World War I roll of honor. The southwest elevation features an individual bronze plaque commemorating John Braid, who was killed in the Korean War in 1952, and is topped by another inset bronze plaque that displays the World War II roll of honor.
Local climate
War Memorial, Rossland Place, Kinghorn 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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