Monument At The Ladies' Seat, Monimail Quarry is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Monument.

Monument At The Ladies' Seat, Monimail Quarry

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NO 296 146
Coordinates
56.31865, -3.13853
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The monument at the Ladies' Seat in Monimail Quarry is a sculptural work by Alexander Melvile, dated 13 February 1818. It features a single battered square column topped with a pyramidal shape and resting on a square base. The column is surrounded by low coping, although the original railings have been removed. Constructed entirely of polished ashlar, the column is inscribed on each face with biblical texts, the date, and the initials "T L" in a circular panel located on the west face beneath a coronet.

Local climate

Monument At The Ladies' Seat, Monimail Quarry receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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