St Cuthbert's Church And Graveyard, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Churchyard.
St Cuthbert's Church And Graveyard, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- kindled-tin-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Churchyard
- OS grid reference
- NX 690 511
- Coordinates
- 54.83781, -4.04013
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Cuthbert's Church and Graveyard in Kirkcudbright dates from the mid-17th century, featuring a wall monument dated 1644 and a later addition to the south. The extensive graveyard is located on the site of the former 8th-century St Cuthbert's church, which has since been demolished. It contains a variety of gravestones from different periods, including some from the 17th and 18th centuries. The boundary wall is made of coursed and squared rubble and includes an arched entrance with obelisks and three ball finials, incorporating stones from other buildings in the town. There is an additional entrance to the east with finialled piers.
The wall monument is a Renaissance structure dedicated to Andrew Ewart, located next to the arched entrance and dated 1644. It features a central panel under a pointed arch that depicts symbols of mortality and includes an inscription, flanked by paired engaged stylised Corinthian columns and topped with three shaped gables.
The graveyard contains a range of 17th and 18th-century tombstones, table slabs, and monuments. Notably, there are two memorials to covenanters with later re-cut inscriptions, as well as memorials to Billy Marshall, dated 1792, and to William Hannah Clarke, created by Alexander Proudfoot and dated 1924.
Local climate
St Cuthbert's Church And Graveyard, Kirkcudbright sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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