Graveyard including boundary walls and gate, Church Street, Stranraer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Graveyard.

Graveyard including boundary walls and gate, Church Street, Stranraer

WRENN ID
moated-rubble-rush
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Graveyard
OS grid reference
NX 059 608
Coordinates
54.90423, -5.02826
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The graveyard of Stranraer Old Parish Church features predominantly headstone graves, several column memorials, and a number of badly decayed small housed tombs. Many gravestones have been set into the boundary wall, with most dating from the 19th century.

The boundary walls are made of brick and are coped, with a plaque in the wall dated 1727. There is a cast iron gate located to the northeast.

Local climate

Graveyard including boundary walls and gate, Church Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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