Auchterderran War Memorial is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1996. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Auchterderran War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tall-kitchen-pigeon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1996
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 213 959
- Coordinates
- 56.14937, -3.26736
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Auchterderran War Memorial, designed by Alexander Murdoch in 1922, is a red sandstone structure that commemorates the fallen from both World Wars. The memorial features a triple-stepped base that leads to a narrow plinth with a moulded cornice. This supports a square pier with disengaged columns on scroll bases at each corner, which are linked by an entablature above. The south face of the memorial bears the inscription:
"In grateful memory of the men of this District who fell in the Great War. Also of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war."
Below this is the phrase, "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE," accompanied by three relief-carved figures in uniform, topped with a laurel wreath. Above, there is a large fluted cross with foliate boss-like points, set on a cavetto moulded plinth with scrollwork. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the west, north, and east faces of the memorial.
The memorial is complemented by gatepiers, a boundary wall, and railings. The gatepiers are pyramidal-coped and dry-dashed, while the boundary wall is low-coped and the railings are made of cast iron.
Local climate
Auchterderran War Memorial receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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