Bust Of Sir Walter Scott, Bank Street, Galashiels is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. Monument.

Bust Of Sir Walter Scott, Bank Street, Galashiels

WRENN ID
noble-minaret-bistre
Grade
C
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 492 360
Coordinates
55.61499, -2.80736
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a bronze bust of Sir Walter Scott, created by Thomas J Clapperton in 1932. The bust is mounted on a light grey granite plinth that features an inset bronze panel showing a bard and a relief carving with the words 'O Great and Gallant Scott'. The bust is surrounded by a semi-circular squared whin wall topped with light grey granite coping. The wall has relief-carved lettering that reads, 'The last of all the bards was he, who sung of border chivalry'. There was originally a stone bench at the base of the wall, which has now been adapted to hold flowers.

Local climate

Bust Of Sir Walter Scott, Bank Street, Galashiels receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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