Coldstone Churchyard, churchyard to former St Neachtan's Church, Kirk Hill is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. 1 related planning application.
Coldstone Churchyard, churchyard to former St Neachtan's Church, Kirk Hill
- WRENN ID
- small-corbel-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- OS grid reference
- NJ 432 056
- Coordinates
- 57.13822, -2.93954
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Coldstone Churchyard serves as the burial ground for the former St Neachtan’s Church, situated on Kirk Hill. This is a rubble-walled enclosure with cast-iron gates, typical of an ancient burial ground that has been terraced into the hillside. The layout consists of a rectangular area of raised ground, enclosed by a low wall that creates a higher ground level. Part of the retaining wall has collapsed, particularly on the south side. The burial ground functioned as the centre of the Coldstone parish before it merged with Logie parish in the late 18th century, forming the current Logie Coldstone parish, which is located equally distant from the ancient burial grounds of both Logie and Coldstone. Numerous gravestones are present, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, with the earliest legible inscription dated 1748. The site's antiquity is further evidenced by the presence of the Coldstone Cross, a recumbent stone located centrally within the enclosure and designated as a Scheduled Monument.
Local climate
Coldstone Churchyard, churchyard to former St Neachtan's Church, Kirk Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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