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Latitude: 57.6082 / 57°36'29"N
Longitude: -3.6182 / 3°37'5"W
OS Eastings: 303405
OS Northings: 858731
OS Grid: NJ034587
Mapcode National: GBR K8FM.39N
Mapcode Global: WH5HB.D189
Plus Code: 9C9RJ95J+7P
Entry Name: Monument To James Thomson, High Street, Forres
Listing Name: High Street, Monument to DR James Thomson, Castle Hill
Listing Date: 30 August 1983
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 373033
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31722
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200373033
Location: Forres
County: Moray
Town: Forres
Electoral Ward: Forres
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Monument
Alexander Urquhart, Elgin, contractor, 1857. Obelisk, about
65' high, of polished Peterhead granite on stepped base.
Stands on site of Forres Castle. Dr James Thomson of Cromarty
cared for Russian wounded after the Battle of Alma, 1854, but
exhausted by this labour, died himself. The Burgh of Cromarty
refused a site for the monument. The site at Forres was given
by Sir Charles R MacGrigor, a friend of Thomson. The
monument was built by public subscription.
Former Item 108 (1983 Revised List)
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