Location
Macduff Knowes, Macduff
Macduff, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 704 643
Date
1920 - 21
Description
Category B listed Dominating the skyline in Macduff, the Knowes War Memorial stands 70 ft in height, an octagonal granite tower, erected in 1921 to commemorate those who gave their lives in the The Great War, 1914-1918.
It commemorates the dead from both World War I & II. It is a tall slender octagonal 5-stage tower of tooled grey granite, bullfaced at lower stages, on stepped based. There are tooled granite dressings with the lower stage defined by cornice with keystoned occulus immediately below in each face. Each face (except that with recessed doorway) has polished grey granite plaques inscribed with names of fallen of 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars. There are rectangular barred openings, to light internal stair, in alternate faces of the 1st stage and randomly sited in 2nd and 3 stages. A deep crenellated wallhead stage is delineated by a blocked cornice with blind crosslet in each face. There is a plaque stating that the foundation stone was laid on 15 April 1920 by Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, who was a daughter of the Duke of Fife.
Era
1900s
Information Source
The Kirks of Buchan Presbytery, p. 62 by James McPherson. Aberdeenshire Council Listed Building Records, Macduff Burgh.
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Creator
- Henderson & Fowlie, Architect
Photographer
- Dianne Sutherland
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