Market Cross, Bowden is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003. Market cross.
Market Cross, Bowden
- WRENN ID
- dim-terrace-spring
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- Type
- Market cross
- OS grid reference
- NT 554 305
- Coordinates
- 55.56631, -2.70865
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Market Cross in Bowden is a late 16th century structure that was restored around 1920 to serve as a War Memorial. It features a two-stage stepped square plinth with a bronze plaque that reads, "RESTORED FOR THE MEN OF THE PARISH WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1914-1919." Above the plinth is the original stop-chamfered base, which supports an inscribed octagonal shaft adorned with a thistle-carved band and topped with the original cross-head.
Local climate
Market Cross, Bowden receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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