Obelisk, Bothwell is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Memorial.
Obelisk, Bothwell
- WRENN ID
- lunar-spandrel-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- NS 710 578
- Coordinates
- 55.79655, -4.05836
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The obelisk in Bothwell, built in 1903, is made of rusticated bull-faced granite and stands on a polished square plinth. It features a tapered, rusticated square-plan base with inscribed commemorative plaques on each face. Above, there is a polished outswept cornice with pedimented blocks on each side.
Surrounding the obelisk is a boundary wall that has a round-ended, rectangular plan. This wall is constructed from bull-faced, snecked pink sandstone and topped with a stepped ridged ashlar coping. Wrought-iron railings complete the enclosure.
Local climate
Obelisk, Bothwell sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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