War Memorial, Land Street, Keith

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/03/1988 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Keith NGR NJ 43139 50745 Coordinates 343139, 850745 — Sir George Washington Browne, 1919. War memorial in 2 sections enclosed by low coped wall. All polished ashlar. At rear square ashlar plinth, with low wall at back, supports bronze figure of Highland soldier; shallow steps. At front, low rectangular cenotaph with flanking walls fronted by shallow shaped steps. Cenotaph in form of rectangular chest with stepped blocks above, upper with wreath and swag frieze, inscribed bronze panels and wreath below. Simple cast-iron railings on low surrounding tooled rubble walls to rectangular site; entrances in each face flanked by simple ashlar gatepiers with shaped or pyramidal caps. — Memorial unified by garden. Additional inscribed plaques commemorate dead of 1939-45 war. Memorial sited at junction of Land Street and Church Road.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.