Old Parish Church'), Rosneath Village (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 5604, 'Rosneath, St Modan's Old Church Graveyard And Boundary Walls is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1971. Burial ground.

Old Parish Church'), Rosneath Village (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 5604, 'Rosneath, St Modan's Old Church Graveyard And Boundary Walls

WRENN ID
dark-chalk-crag
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 July 1971
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NS 253 831
Coordinates
56.00943, -4.8028
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Parish Church in Rosneath Village features an irregular oval-plan burial ground that contains several obelisk and table slabs. Among the grave stones and memorials from the 18th century is a notable memorial to John Leod Campbell, known for his heresy fame. Some mid-18th century memorials display carved memento mori symbols and trade motifs, including shears and shoes. The burial ground is enclosed by a boundary wall made of whinstone rubble, which has harl-pointing and a semicircular coping.

Local climate

Old Parish Church'), Rosneath Village (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 5604, 'Rosneath, St Modan's Old Church Graveyard And Boundary Walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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