Hugh Miller Monument, The Paye, Cromarty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Monument.
Hugh Miller Monument, The Paye, Cromarty
- WRENN ID
- still-cupola-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NH 788 673
- Coordinates
- 57.67956, -4.03271
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Hugh Miller Monument, located at The Paye in Cromarty, was created in 1859 by sculptor Handyside Ritchie and contractor Thomas Watson from Edinburgh. This monument features a 50-foot high Greek Doric column topped with a statue of Hugh Miller, who is depicted wearing a cape and plaid, holding a pile of books that represent his works and a geological specimen in his right hand. The plinth is adorned with laurel wreaths on three sides and features a representation of Miller's winged fish from the Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty on the fourth side. The monument stands on a rusticated stone base that includes a marble tablet. The base is made of Old Red Sandstone sourced from Shore quarry, while the remainder of the monument is constructed from yellowish sandstone from Daviston quarry. Cast-iron railings surround the monument.
Local climate
Hugh Miller Monument, The Paye, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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