War Memorial, War Memorial Gardens, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
War Memorial, War Memorial Gardens, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- north-cellar-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 275 916
- Coordinates
- 56.11204, -3.16586
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial located in the War Memorial Gardens on Bennochy Road in Kirkcaldy is a significant structure dedicated to the memory of those who served in both World Wars. Designed by Heiton and McKay in 1923, the First World War memorial features a central stepped ashlar cenotaph adorned with bronze figures on three sides representing each branch of the armed forces. Surrounding this are flanking walls, each displaying 18 bronze commemorative plaques.
The Second World War memorial, created by Williamson and Hubbard in 1954, consists of a white sarcophagus tomb set on a chamfered plinth, with decorative consoles supporting a tabletop. Behind it is a quadrant wall that includes flanking ashlar piers marked with the dates '1939' and '1945', along with 11 bronze commemorative plaques and a frieze inscribed with the words "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS".
Additionally, there is a sundial featuring a stop-chamfered ashlar plinth on a moulded base, with a carved frieze that reads "At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them". The sundial has a stepped cope, although the gnomon is missing. The site is further enhanced by square ashlar gatepiers with decorative ironwork lamps and low quadrant walls.
Local climate
War Memorial, War Memorial Gardens, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy 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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