Churchyard Walls, Cortachy Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Wall.
Churchyard Walls, Cortachy Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- swift-gravel-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- NO 395 597
- Coordinates
- 56.72505, -2.98886
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard walls of Cortachy Parish Church are an average of 6 feet high and made of rubble. They feature a pointed arch door leading to the Castle. The walls are supported by square ashlar piers that have battlemented caps, along with decorative cast iron gates. These elements date back to around 1828 and earlier. The site is notable for its well-carved gravestones and picturesque setting.
Local climate
Churchyard Walls, Cortachy Parish Church 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Old Parish Church And Burial-Ground, Parish Church, Cortachy
- Gray Lodge, Cortachy Castle
- Golden Gates, Cortachy Castle
- Cortachy Bridge
- West Mill, Cortachy Village Hall
- Private Burial Ground, Cortachy Castle
- Lacket Cottage, Cortachy
- Cortachy Castle
- War Memorial, Cortachy
- Dairy Cottage, Cortachy Castle