Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 February 1993. Cemetery gatepiers and boundary walls.

Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ghost-cinder-merlin
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 February 1993
Type
Cemetery gatepiers and boundary walls
OS grid reference
NT 236 725
Coordinates
55.93991, -3.22403
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dalry Cemetery in Edinburgh was landscaped by David Cousin in 1846.

The gateways have been significantly altered, particularly at Dalry Road, where there are decapitated orthogonal gatepiers with large sawtooth coped buttresses. These are flanked by square piers that feature moulded crenellations. There is also a rear entrance to Dundee Street with four square piers similar to those at the front, and plain wrought-iron gates.

The boundary wall and railings are made of squared, snecked, and stugged sandstone resting on an ashlar plinth, topped with semi-circular coping. In front of the lodge, there is a lower coped section filled with iron arrowhead railings and a wrought panel. A milestone is located on the northwest wall.

The terrace features a perron stair leading to a buttressed terrace with a balustrade and catacombs below. There is a pointed-arch entrance to the vaults, flanked by buttressed octagonal piers on either side of the stair. Each vault is illuminated by a demi-lune skylight located in the upper level of the terrace, though the entire structure is in poor condition.

Local climate

Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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