Gateway And War Memorial, Memorial Park, Loanhead is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 2001. Memorial gateway. 1 related planning application.
Gateway And War Memorial, Memorial Park, Loanhead
- WRENN ID
- brooding-bracket-birch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 2001
- Type
- Memorial gateway
- OS grid reference
- NT 278 654
- Coordinates
- 55.87672, -3.15398
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gateway and War Memorial in Memorial Park, Loanhead, was built in 1922. It features a commemorative arch, a boundary wall, cast-iron railings, and a gate, along with a separate World War II monument within the park topped by a lion statue.
The north elevation, which adjoins The Loan, showcases a modern triumphal archway dedicated to World War I. It has a red tile roof that is raised in the center and includes an inset panel inscribed with "IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE FROM LOANHEAD AND DISTRICT WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 THIS PARK AND GATEWAY ARE DEDICATED - Their name liveth for evermore." The arch is flanked by curved wing walls, each with two name panels, a band course above, squared end piers, stone coping, and cast-iron railings, along with a cast-iron gate.
The wall consists of a low stone structure with cast-iron railings that match the gate. The memorial features a rusticated stone column with inset panels on all sides and a smooth plinth, topped by an older lion statue.
Local climate
Gateway And War Memorial, Memorial Park, Loanhead sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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