War Memorial, High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1982. Memorial.

War Memorial, High Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
waning-stair-weasel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 June 1982
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
NJ 215 628
Coordinates
57.64862, -3.31601
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial on High Street in Elgin was created by Percy Portsmouth in 1920. It features a bronze figure symbolizing peace and victory, standing on a tall rectangular plinth made of ashlar stone. The memorial includes steps and a dwarf wall on either side. The plinth is adorned with panels that display the names of those who fell in the First World War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945).

Local climate

War Memorial, High Street, 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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