Monument To The Dukes Of Roxburghe, Kelso Abbey, Bridge Street, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Monument.
Monument To The Dukes Of Roxburghe, Kelso Abbey, Bridge Street, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- tilted-ember-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NT 728 337
- Coordinates
- 55.59697, -2.43221
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Monument to the Dukes of Roxburghe, located at Kelso Abbey on Bridge Street in Kelso, was designed by Reginald Fairlie and constructed between 1933 and 1934. This building features an L-plan Romanesque arcade that forms two sides of a cloister, with two bays to the north and four bays to the east. It is supported by cylindrical piers that carry a rib vault. The spandrels of the arches are adorned with sculptured lozenges, and there is a weather table and a coped parapet above. The west face of the north range includes a 13th-century doorway with a foiled head, which originally stood southwest of the parlour but likely came from the chapter house. Additionally, there is a dwarf wall along the road with railings.
Local climate
Monument To The Dukes Of Roxburghe, Kelso Abbey, Bridge Street, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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