War Memorial, Bridge Street, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. War memorial.

War Memorial, Bridge Street, Kelso

WRENN ID
burning-flint-azure
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
War memorial
OS grid reference
NT 728 337
Coordinates
55.59666, -2.43213
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial on Bridge Street in Kelso was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1921 and is of the Mercat Cross type. It features a square shaft topped with a cross, standing on a pedestal that has a niche containing a statue of St George, sculpted by C d'O Pilkington Jackson. The memorial is set on a stepped base with an octagonal balustraded parapet surrounding it, and each face of the pedestal includes a tablet inscribed with the names of the fallen. There is a dwarf wall along Bridge Street with a moulded coping and a wrought-iron rail positioned between the piers.

Local climate

War Memorial, 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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