War Memorial, Esplanade, Campbeltown

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 28/03/1996 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Campbeltown NGR NR 72034 20730 Coordinates 172034, 620730 — 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.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.