War Memorial, Balmoral Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. War memorial.

War Memorial, Balmoral Castle

WRENN ID
white-buttress-meadow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 2010
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NO 261 948
Coordinates
57.03911, -3.21851
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial at Balmoral Castle was designed by Dr. William Kelly and sculpted by Sir James Taggart in 1922. It features a panelled slab-shaft made of Inver granite, topped with a carved cross that includes Celtic braid chip-carving and is flanked by a sword. The memorial is dated from AD 1914 to 1919. In front of it is a free-standing horizontal pedestal table on a granite base, which is inscribed with the names of the deceased and includes swastikas initialled GR on the right side. The base was inscribed by Charles Macdonald Ltd of Aberdeen and has additional names added after the Second World War, dated AD 1939 to 1945.

Local climate

War Memorial, Balmoral Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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