Churchyard, Old St Peter's Church, South Road, Peterhead is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Graveyard.
Churchyard, Old St Peter's Church, South Road, Peterhead
- WRENN ID
- leaning-hammer-amber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NK 126 460
- Coordinates
- 57.50431, -1.79076
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard of Old St Peter's Church on South Road in Peterhead features dykes that were built in 1816, the same year the graveyard was extended. It contains an important collection of monuments primarily from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, while the southern extension of the graveyard is more recent.
Local climate
Churchyard, Old St Peter's Church, South Road, Peterhead receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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