Jewish Burial Ground, Sciennes House Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 May 1990. Burial ground.

Jewish Burial Ground, Sciennes House Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fossil-basalt-river
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 May 1990
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NT 262 722
Coordinates
55.93762, -3.18155
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Jewish Burial Ground at Sciennes House Place in Edinburgh was established in 1820 and covers one twenty-fourth of an acre. It is enclosed by sandstone rubble walls of varying ages, primarily from the 18th century, on the south, east, and west sides. The lower wall on the north side is a later 19th-century construction made of squared and snecked sandstone, topped with saddleback ashlar coping. It features wrought-iron railings and a two-leaf gate.

Within the burial ground, there are 29 graves that include a variety of gravestones and wall monuments, dating from 1820 to 1867, with inscriptions in Hebrew characters. Notably, there is a tripartite Greek wall monument located on the east wall.

Local climate

Jewish Burial Ground, Sciennes House Place, 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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