Duke Of Gordon Monument, Lady Hill, Elgin is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Monument.

Duke Of Gordon Monument, Lady Hill, Elgin

WRENN ID
mired-garret-hazel
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 August 1981
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NJ 211 628
Coordinates
57.64826, -3.32251
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Duke of Gordon Monument, located on Lady Hill in Elgin, was designed by architect William Burn from Edinburgh in 1839 and stands 80 feet high. The monument features a Roman Doric column topped with a statue of the Duke of Gordon, dressed in the robes of Chancellor of Marischall College, Aberdeen. This statue was added later, between 1854 and 1855, and was sculpted by Thomas Goodwillie, with architectural work by Mackenzie and Mathews from Elgin during the same period. The monument is set on a stepped plinth and is enclosed by cast-iron spearhead railings that include iron stiffeners.

Local climate

Duke Of Gordon Monument, Lady Hill, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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