St John's C of I Graveyard, Graveyard Lane, Off John Street, Rathfriland, Co Down, BT34 2AH is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
St John's C of I Graveyard, Graveyard Lane, Off John Street, Rathfriland, Co Down, BT34 2AH
- WRENN ID
- broken-lintel-storm
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- St John's C of I Graveyard, Graveyard Lane, Off John Street, Rathfriland, Co Down, BT34 2AH, Cross, BT34 2AH
- Irish grid reference
- J 199 334
- Coordinates
- 54.23591, -6.16127
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The graveyard is situated on the southwest side of Graveyard Lane, off John Street, southwest of St John's Church. It is of local interest and contains no features of group value. The entrance is marked by a pair of wrought-iron gates featuring twisted pointed dogbars and chamfered cuboidal finials on the top bars. These are hung from strap-pointed concrete-block pillars. The graveyard is bounded on three sides by hedges and along the lane by a random rubble wall. A plot dedicated to Joseph Haslett (died 1870) and his family is immediately visible on entering; it has a polished granite headstone set within a brick-trimmed, semicircular-headed recess in the boundary wall.
The enclosed graveyard is grassed and remains in use for burials. Gravestones within vary in style and date, with small, largely indecipherable examples likely dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries, closer to the entrance; cut stone examples from the mid-19th century; and finely dressed or polished stones from the later 19th and 20th centuries.
The graveyard is associated with St John’s Parish Church, built beginning in 1730 and situated to the north. The site itself was established between 1720 and 1739, and was recorded on a 1776 Mead Estate Map. An earliest decipherable headstone dates from 1779.
Local climate
St John's C of I Graveyard, Graveyard Lane, Off John Street, Rathfriland, Co Down, BT34 2AH sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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