Kenneth Murray Monument, High Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Monument.

Kenneth Murray Monument, High Street, Tain

WRENN ID
leaning-joist-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1982
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NH 780 820
Coordinates
57.81148, -4.05337
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kenneth Murray Monument, located on High Street in Tain, is a decorated Gothic structure designed by Laurence Beveridge in Edinburgh in 1879. The monument is built to street height on a tall, square rubble plinth. It features a white marble bust set on a dark marble plinth, which is positioned beneath a spire supported by four cusped arches. These arches have nook shafts and buttressed, pinnacled angles. Above, there is a columned circular arcade with smaller angle pinnacles that support a crocketted spire topped with a stiff leaf finial.

Local climate

Kenneth Murray Monument, High Street, Tain receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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