War Memorial, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Monument.

War Memorial, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow

WRENN ID
muted-plinth-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NS 566 663
Coordinates
55.86938, -4.29222
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, was designed by P. Lindsey Clark and completed in 1924. It features a bronze figure group that commemorates the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), depicting a fallen soldier, an advancing soldier, and a machine gunner. The memorial is set on a granite plinth that includes a polished floral frieze.

Local climate

War Memorial, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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