Glasgow Academy War Memorial, Colebrooke Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. War memorial, school boundary wall.

Glasgow Academy War Memorial, Colebrooke Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
bitter-gallery-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
War memorial, school boundary wall
Address
Glasgow Academy War Memorial, Colebrooke Street, Glasgow, G12 8HD
OS grid reference
NS 574 670
Coordinates
55.87517, -4.28051
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Glasgow Academy War Memorial, designed by architect A N Paterson in 1924, is a polished ashlar structure set into the school wall at the junction of Colebrooke Street and Great Western Road. The memorial is adjacent to a stugged ashlar school wall, which connects to the school railings to the northeast and the approach wall to the Great Western Bridge to the southeast.

The memorial features a plaque that is flanked by ashlar piers, which display wreathed dates commemorating the school's foundation in 1845 and its reconstitution in 1923. At the center, there is an inscribed dedication panel, flanked by sculpted palm branches that rest on fluted pilasters. These support an incised frieze, a mutule cornice, and a blocking course. Access to the memorial is via two shallow steps, leading up to the high school wall, which includes intermediate ashlar piers adorned with an incised band featuring a Greek key detail.

Local climate

Glasgow Academy War Memorial, Colebrooke Street, 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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