Rosehill Cemetery, Rosehill Road, Montrose is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1999. Cemetery.

Rosehill Cemetery, Rosehill Road, Montrose

WRENN ID
sheer-bronze-onyx
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1999
Type
Cemetery
OS grid reference
NO 718 587
Coordinates
56.71995, -2.46173
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rosehill Cemetery, established in 1839, is a large cemetery enclosed by coped sandstone ashlar walls. The walls feature pedimented lodges at the southern wall's eastern and western ends. The southern wall extends eastward, creating a secondary enclosure with an entrance on Rose Hill. The cemetery is divided by internal walls, which include a lodge and gatepiers.

The southern elevation features a lodge on the west side, constructed of fine ashlar with two blocked round-arched windows and a pedimented gablehead. The lodge has a T-plan layout that extends north, with rubble and dry-dash finishes, replacement windows, and roof slates, along with ashlar gablehead stacks. In the center, there are gatepiers and gates inscribed "1839," which are square in section, corniced, and capped, flanked by cast-iron gates adorned with ornate cross finials and bands. The lodge on the east side mirrors the western lodge, featuring two round-arched windows, a pedimented gablehead, and a cemetery wall extending north with a stone shed on the left.

The eastern elevation showcases a raised boundary wall for the secondary enclosure, with square section, cornice and capped gatepiers, and cast-iron gates similar to those on the southern elevation. Additional gatepiers are located on the inner wall to the west.

Internally, the lodge near the southern entrance has a base course, an eaves band course, two lancet windows, and a pointed arch doorway. There is also a dividing wall running east-west with ornate Baroque gatepiers dated 1816. The cemetery contains many fine 19th-century headstones and monuments.

The northern and western elevations are characterized by coped rubble boundary walls to the north and squared and stugged walls to the west.

Local climate

Rosehill Cemetery, Rosehill Road, Montrose receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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