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Latitude: 56.486 / 56°29'9"N
Longitude: -2.9565 / 2°57'23"W
OS Eastings: 341193
OS Northings: 733061
OS Grid: NO411330
Mapcode National: GBR ZCD.M8
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.K7CM
Plus Code: 9C8VF2PV+9C
Entry Name: Caird Park, Mains Parish WWI Black Watch Memorial
Listing Name: Mains Parish WWI Black Watch Memorial, Caird Park
Listing Date: 14 January 2010
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400302
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51412
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Mains Parish Wwi Black Watch Memorial, Caird Park
ID on this website: 200400302
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Strathmartine
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1922. Sandstone ashlar War Memorial to members of Black Watch Battalion set beside Gelly Burn and amidst woodland in Caird Park. Broad stepped base of ashlar blocks. Base course to plinth with overhanging cornice above providing base for freestanding Corinthian columns to each corner. Sandstone ashlar pier to centre with segmental pedimented panels inscribed with names of fallen soldiers. Plain entablature with deep corniced eaves course above and central domed stone roof.
The Mains Parish War Memorial is an unusual example of a First World War Memorial. It was designed to incorporate a fountain. The form of the memorial is unusual in Scotland with its freestanding Corinthian columns and central stone domed roof. Few other examples of a freestanding memorial of this date are thought to include a decorative fountain.
The setting of the memorial is appropriate to a building which is commemorating the dead. The setting within a sylvan location composed of trees and an adjacent stream evokes the Elysian fields through which in Greek mythology represented the resting place of the souls of the heroic and virtuous. The use of the Corinthian order for the column capitals is also a reference to classical Greek heroism as the Corinthian order was originally Athenian in origin.
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