Wallace Monument, Robroyston Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Monument.
Wallace Monument, Robroyston Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- nether-cobalt-woodpecker
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 634 693
- Coordinates
- 55.89772, -4.18592
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Wallace Monument is a roadside structure erected in 1900 to commemorate the reputed site of the house where Sir William Wallace, the Guardian of Scotland, was betrayed in 1305. This tall cross is made of pink granite and was crafted by the sculptors McGlashen from Edinburgh, who signed their work. The design of the cross, although not the details, is inspired by St Martin's cross from Iona. The monument is raised high on a granite plinth and is surrounded by plain iron railings. The site is set back into a field, with the farm dyke having been breached and rebuilt around the monument, featuring slender pink ashlar square piers that have been reused from another location.
Local climate
Wallace Monument, Robroyston Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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