George Meikle Kemp Memorial, Redscarhead

James Grieve, 1932. Single storey, Gothic memorial gable on rear extension of earlier building, housing bronze memorial to George Miekle Kemp within 3-light arched window. Coursed whinstone with polished ashlar base course, buttressed angles and plain copes (formerly saddle-backed crow-steps); concrete arched gothic light.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gable-end with remnants of angle buttresses and plain skews replacing earlier saddle-backed crow-steps. Central 3-light pointed-arch blind window of intersecting bar tracery within arched ashlar surround with heavy stone mullions and transoms; inset in central light a bronze memorial tablet with miniature Scott Monument to upper left and bust of Miekle Kemp, inscription under bust reading "GEORGE MIEKLE KEMP, CARPENTER AND ARCHITECT, born 1795 - died 1844". To left light, panel inscribed "THIS MEMORIAL TO GEORGE MIEKLE KEMP WAS SUBSCRIBED BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF PEEBLES AND OTHERS ON THE FIRST CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT BARONET OF ABBOTSFORD 21st SEPTEMBER 1932". To right light, panel inscribed "SIR MICHAEL G THORBURN LORD LIEUTENANT, GEORGE ANDERSON PROVOST OF PEEBLES, ROBERT MATHIESON PROVOST OF INNERLEITHEN, JAMES GRIEVE FSA SCOT, COMMITTEE". To lower lights, inset quatrefoil each with coloured shield: Peebles coat of arms in left, saltire to centre and fishing emblem to right; GEORGE MEIKLE KEMP carved into drip sill. Inset carved thistle stone to gablehead with moulded surround; original carved stone finial now missing terminating instead in plain gable head, plain skews replace former crow-steps.