Glenfinnan Monument is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Monument. 3 related planning applications.

Glenfinnan Monument

WRENN ID
eternal-latch-grove
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Monument
Address
Glenfinnan Monument, PH37 4LT
OS grid reference
NM 906 805
Coordinates
56.86918, -5.43706
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Glenfinnan Monument, built in 1814, is a tall column made of rubble, featuring a corbelled and crenellated wallhead. At the top, it is surmounted by a later bronze statue of a Highlander, sculpted by Greenshields. The monument has a battered base with a pulvinated string course and a slightly projecting corniced entrance porch that leads to an internal spiral stair. It is surrounded by an eight-sided rubble wall that is coped, which includes three later pedimented sections that contain inscriptions in English, Gaelic, and Latin.

Local climate

Glenfinnan Monument sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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