Leyden Monument, Denholm is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 November 2007. Monument.
Leyden Monument, Denholm
- WRENN ID
- long-chamber-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 November 2007
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NT 568 184
- Coordinates
- 55.45787, -2.6845
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Leyden Monument in Denholm, designed by architect Hector H. Orrock and sculpted by A. Handyside Ritchie in 1861, is a square-plan, Decorated Gothic spire dedicated to John Leyden. It features a stepped base topped by two stages of short clustered columns with foliate capitals. The lower stage has inscribed plaques, while the upper stage supports an open arrangement of trefoil-headed arches set beneath crocketed gablets, with a draped urn in the interior. Sculpted figures and animals adorn the corners, and a banded and crocketed pinnacle rises above. The monument is constructed from Swinton sandstone, with columns made of polished red Aberdeen granite. The plaques on the lower stage and between the stages commemorate Leyden and his descendant John Lamb Leyden, including Biblical quotations and extracts from Leyden's work. The monument is enclosed by decorative iron railings.
Local climate
Leyden Monument, Denholm 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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