Monument To James George Smith Neill, Wellington Square, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Monument.
Monument To James George Smith Neill, Wellington Square, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- solitary-steeple-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 334 217
- Coordinates
- 55.46118, -4.63536
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument to James George Smith Neill, located in Wellington Square, Ayr, was sculpted by Matthew Noble in 1859. It features a stepped granite rectangular-plan plinth with a bronze tablet on the west face that depicts a battle scene, along with a pulvinated bronze band. Atop the plinth is a bronze figure facing east. The west face of the monument reads, "Erected by public subscription 1859." The east face provides an inscription that honors Neill as "Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Lieutenant Colonel in the Madras Army. Brigadier General in India. A brave, resolute, self-reliant soldier, universally acknowledged as the first who stemmed the torrent of rebellion in Bengal. He fell gloriously at the relief of Lucknow, 25th September 1857, aged 47."
Local climate
Monument To James George Smith Neill, Wellington Square, Ayr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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