Burial Ground Extension, Colinton Parish Church, Dell Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Churchyard.
Burial Ground Extension, Colinton Parish Church, Dell Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- eternal-stone-coral
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Churchyard
- OS grid reference
- NT 215 691
- Coordinates
- 55.90943, -3.25633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Burial Ground Extension at Colinton Parish Church, located on Dell Road in Edinburgh, mainly dates from the 18th century. It features a rubble enclosure wall with ashlar dressings and a segmentally arched gateway leading to Dell, accompanied by a small gatehouse. The structure has one window on the gable front and a slated roof with a large ashlar end stack at the rear.
Inside, there is a good series of family burial enclosures that are stepped along the slope, showcasing droved and channelled ashlar fronts with architraved pedimented doorways, one of which includes a well-crafted wrought iron gate. The Inglis vault features a Neo-Greek unfluted distyle in antis Doric front.
The burial ground also contains several sculptured tombstones, with many dating from the mid-18th century. Notably, there is a mausoleum for James Gillespie, who died in 1797, which has a channelled ashlar pedimented front, a semicircular arched entrance, and a stone slabbed roof.
Local climate
Burial Ground Extension, Colinton Parish Church, Dell Road, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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