Gatepiers And Railings Formerly To Morningside Cemetery, Belhaven Place is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 2007. Gatepiers and railings.
Gatepiers And Railings Formerly To Morningside Cemetery, Belhaven Place
- WRENN ID
- narrow-vault-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 August 2007
- Type
- Gatepiers and railings
- OS grid reference
- NT 243 708
- Coordinates
- 55.92496, -3.21207
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The entrance gatepiers and wrought iron quadrant railings, formerly part of Morningside Cemetery, were built in 1878. The outer gatepiers are ornate, featuring moulded octagonal bases, cylindrical shafts decorated with carved foliage, and topped with urn finials. The railings display scrolling and floral motifs, while the inner piers are square in plan and support plain gates.
Local climate
Gatepiers And Railings Formerly To Morningside Cemetery, Belhaven Place 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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