Martyrs Monument, Woodside Cemetery, Broomlands Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 July 1996. Monument.

Martyrs Monument, Woodside Cemetery, Broomlands Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
gentle-moat-sepia
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 July 1996
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NS 471 638
Coordinates
55.84364, -4.44254
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Martyrs Monument, located in Woodside Cemetery on Broomlands Street in Paisley, was designed by architect James Drummond and sculpted by Matthew Gemmell in 1835. This monument stands approximately 3 meters high and is made of Stevenston sandstone ashlar in the form of an obelisk. The obelisk features stop-chamfered arrises, while the plinth has consoled canted corners and a convex-sided base and cornice. The monument shows significant deterioration, with very bad spalling that has been patched with cement. A granite plaque, added around 1975, restates the lost inscription.

Local climate

Martyrs Monument, Woodside Cemetery, Broomlands Street, Paisley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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