War Memorial, Balbirnie Street, Markinch is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial, Balbirnie Street, Markinch
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-pinnacle-cobweb
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Balbirnie Street, Markinch, KY7 6DB
- OS grid reference
- NO 297 017
- Coordinates
- 56.20344, -3.13431
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial located on Balbirnie Street in Markinch was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and executed by William Davidson in 1920. It is a two-stage square columnar structure made of ashlar sandstone, featuring a crenellated enclosure.
The first stage rests on a plain plinth. The north face displays St. George and the dragon above an inscription tablet that reads: "To the Glory of God and in memory of the men from Markinch and District who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914-1918." The south face features St. Drostan above another inscription tablet that states: "Remember also those who laid down their lives in the Second World War 1939-1945," topped with a bronze name plaque.
The second stage has a raked base and a plain shaft with chamfered edges. Each face of this stage is adorned with a carved shield at the apex: the south depicts the old parish church, the west shows a knight on horseback, the east features a Saltire, and the north displays a thistle and crown. The memorial is topped with a cross finial on a squat square shaft.
Surrounding the memorial is a polygonal ashlar enclosure with a lectern-coped, crenellated design, featuring a base course and four openings.
Local climate
War Memorial, Balbirnie Street, Markinch 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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