Private Burial Ground With Obelisk, Brucklay Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 2004. Burial ground.

Private Burial Ground With Obelisk, Brucklay Castle

WRENN ID
endless-roof-barley
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 2004
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NJ 911 497
Coordinates
57.53804, -2.14866
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This private burial ground, established in 1875, features a flight of ashlar steps flanked by dwarf walls, dies, and urns that lead to a small family burial area. The burial ground is enclosed with hooped ironwork railings and a two-leaf gate, and it includes a granite obelisk.

The granite obelisk stands on a stepped base and has an inscribed plinth. It serves as a memorial to William Dingwall-Fordyce, who died in 1875, James Alexander Dingwall-Fordyce, who died in 1988, and Robert Dingwall-Fordyce, a Major in the Royal Scots Greys, who died in 1935. Additionally, there are various small headstones, including a Celtic Cross memorial dedicated to Rachel Dingwall-Fordyce, who lived from 1843 to 1918.

Local climate

Private Burial Ground With Obelisk, Brucklay Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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