Black Watch Monument, Taybridge Drive, Aberfeldy is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Monument.
Black Watch Monument, Taybridge Drive, Aberfeldy
- WRENN ID
- woven-stair-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NN 851 492
- Coordinates
- 56.6208, -3.87301
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Black Watch Monument, located on Taybridge Drive in Aberfeldy, was designed by John and William Birnie Rhind in 1887 and built by Messrs Gow & Dewar. It was rebuilt in 1910 after sustaining damage from lightning. This memorial, constructed as a piled boulder cairn, honors the Royal Highland Regiment. At each face of the cairn, there is a large tablet, topped by a figure of Private Farquhar Shaw, who is depicted in an early Regimental uniform, carrying a flintlock musket and drawing a sword.
On the northeast elevation, the figure of a soldier is shown in the 1887 Highlander parade uniform, inscribing a tablet that lists the engagements of the Black Watch. The southwest elevation features a relief-carved bust of Queen Victoria above the inscription, "1887 THE YEAR OF THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA / THIS SITE HAS BEEN KINDLY GRANTED BY THE MOST NOBLE GAVIN MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE." The southeast elevation includes an inscription detailing the first assembly of the 'INDEPENDENT COMPANIES' in October 1739 and the first muster of the 'ROYAL HIGHLANDERS' in May 1740. Below this, another tablet notes that "ON 5TH SEPTEMBER 1970 / THE FREEDOM OF THE BURGH OF ABERFELDY WAS CONFERRED UPON THE BLACK WATCH." Finally, the northwest elevation features a tablet inscribed in Gaelic.
Local climate
Black Watch Monument, Taybridge Drive, Aberfeldy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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