War Memorial, Main Street, West Linton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1978.
War Memorial, Main Street, West Linton
- WRENN ID
- keen-pilaster-gold
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1978
- OS grid reference
- NT 149 515
- Coordinates
- 55.75015, -3.35626
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The West Linton War Memorial, designed by Peter McGregor Chalmers around 1920, is a pink sandstone ashlar monolith. It stands on a shouldered plinth and stepped base and is prominently located on Main Street. The memorial features a moulded garland framing a bronze commemorative plaque, dedicated by the people of West Linton parish in memory of those who died in the Great War (1914-18). A lower bronze plaque has been added to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War (1939-45). The memorial’s design is reminiscent of the work of J J Burnett and R S Lorimer for the War Graves Commission. Peter McGregor Chalmers (1859-1922) was primarily known for his earlier Romanesque ecclesiastical designs. The memorial is situated in front of St Andrew's Parish Church, which is listed separately.
Local climate
War Memorial, Main Street, West Linton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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