Mungo Park Memorial, High Street, Selkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. Monument. 1 related planning application.
Mungo Park Memorial, High Street, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- floating-screen-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NT 471 286
- Coordinates
- 55.54848, -2.83906
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mungo Park Memorial, located on High Street in Selkirk, is a significant ashlar monument designed by Andrew Currie in 1859, with bas reliefs by Thomas Clapperton added in 1905 and bronze statues introduced in 1913. The memorial is topped by a statue of Mungo Park and features a square-plan coped pedestal. The base course includes rectangular panels with cast-iron bas reliefs depicting scenes from Mungo Park's travels on the southeast and northwest elevations, while the other two elevations display carved inscriptions. At each corner of the pedestal, there are bronze statues representing Peace, War, Slavery, and Home in the Niger. The pedestal also has a battered course with a carved lion-head at each corner, leading to a panelled section that converges upward. The statue of Mungo Park is positioned to face north.
Local climate
Mungo Park Memorial, High Street, Selkirk 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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