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Latitude: 55.4273 / 55°25'38"N
Longitude: -5.6044 / 5°36'15"W
OS Eastings: 172034
OS Northings: 620730
OS Grid: NR720207
Mapcode National: IRL Y3.7B96
Mapcode Global: GBR DGJC.KPC
Plus Code: 9C7PC9GW+W6
Entry Name: War Memorial, Esplanade, Campbeltown
Listing Name: Esplanade, War Memorial
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389413
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43065
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389413
Location: Campbeltown
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Campbeltown
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: War memorial
A N Paterson 1923. Symmetrical, green bull-faced squared and snecked substantial stone memorial tower of square plan. Battered base, diagonally placed buttresses at corners with white marble plaques of Second World War deceased added to each, round corners above. Green slabs with inscriptions to each face, that to E recessed over white marble plaque. Bracketted ledge over with tall round-arched recess above containing contrasting granite stone cross relief. Stepped pyramidal top surmounted by small stone cross.
On the 23rd August 1922, the Committee in Charge of the Arrangements applied to erect a war memorial in Kinloch Park, resulting in this unusual and substantial design possibly influenced by J T Rochead?s Wallace Monument at Stirling.
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