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Latitude: 57.6917 / 57°41'30"N
Longitude: -2.1158 / 2°6'56"W
OS Eastings: 393194
OS Northings: 866879
OS Grid: NJ931668
Mapcode National: GBR P84D.7CQ
Mapcode Global: WH9N0.GXPV
Plus Code: 9C9VMVRM+MM
Entry Name: War Memorial, Cairnhill, Rosehearty
Listing Name: Cairnhill, War Memorial
Listing Date: 23 May 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386360
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40431
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Rosehearty, Cairnhill, War Memorial
ID on this website: 200386360
Location: Rosehearty
County: Aberdeenshire
Town: Rosehearty
Electoral Ward: Troup
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: War memorial
Dated 1914-1919. Square battered 3-stage tower. Tooled
granite rubble, bullfaced dressings.
Round-headed blocked entrance to N face with datestone above
approached by flight of steps; small square windows in 1st
stage, E and W elevations and in all upper stage elevations;
corniced wallhead with waterspout in centre of each side;
very shallow pyramidal roof.
Frontage enclosed by low coped concrete walls; entrance
flanked by concrete gatepiers with pyramidal caps, the letter
B on left pier and L on right.
Memorial stands on prominent rise above the Rosehearty and
was intended as a landmark for shipping, carrying on a local
tradition already established at Mounthooley (the holy mount)
where the dovecot tower is a landmark. The doorway leads to a
ground floor 'shrine' in which inscribed marble plaques
recorded the names of those killed in the 1914-1919 war.
These plaques have now been removed to Rosehearty church and
all openings sealed. Red polished granite panel above door
inscribed 1914-1919.
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