War Memorial, Townhead, Dysart is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial, Townhead, Dysart
- WRENN ID
- other-hall-dale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 301 931
- Coordinates
- 56.12594, -3.12506
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial located at Townhead in Dysart was built in 1920. It is an obelisk made of droved ashlar stone. The memorial features an octagonal base with three steps, leading to a rusticated plinth and a set-back single-stage pedestal with chamfered angles. Each face of the pedestal displays a bronze plaque labeled 'ROLL OF HONOUR', topped by an inscribed band that reads 'THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919'. The shaft of the memorial is also octagonal, with a moulded base, a decorative band, and a carved cap. The north and south sides feature the 'Lion of Scotland', while the east and west sides display the Dysart coat-of-arms, represented by a tree.
Surrounding the memorial are semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.
Local climate
War Memorial, Townhead, Dysart 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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