War Memorial, Esplanade Gardens, Victoria Street

Heritage listing

Category C Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 18/11/2011 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Rothesay NGR NS 08750 64800 Coordinates 208750, 664800 — Charles E Tweedie, 1921-2; sculpture by C d'O Pilkington Jackson. War memorial consisting of tall rectangular Aberdeen granite plinth supporting bronze Victory statue set within 19th century pleasure gardens and on prominent corner site. Broad stepped base, stepped plinth, stepped, moulded and concave top surmounted by female sculpture with outspread wings, holding cross. Inscribed bronze panels set within raised fielded panels to plinth, that to E with scroll detail to top. Bronze wreaths to top of plinth. Base inscribed '1916-1919'. — B-Group with West pier Cabbie's Shelter and Former Weighing House (see separate listings). The Rothesay War Memorial is a well-detailed memorial with a high quality sculptural figure which is a prominent feature of Esplanade Gardens, set on a prominent corner site adjacent to the town's main square and the ferry terminal. Charles E Tweedie and Sons was an Edinburgh-based architectural practice and this memorial in Rothesay is the only example of their work outside Edinburgh. The practice also submitted an unsuccessful competition entry for the Rothesay pavilion. In Edinburgh the practice worked on 107-8 Princes Street (see separate listing) and brewery designs for both William Younger and William MacEwan. C d'O Pilkington Jackson was a prominent sculptor who worked on a number of war memorials across Scotland, including at St Giles in Edinburgh (see separate listing) and the Scottish National War Memorial (see separate listing). Rothesay is one of Scotland's premier seaside resorts, developed primarily during the second half of the 1

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.