Kirkmadrine Church And Burial-Ground is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church.
Kirkmadrine Church And Burial-Ground
- WRENN ID
- endless-glass-ebony
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 080 483
- Coordinates
- 54.79355, -4.98781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkmadrine Church and Burial-Ground features a mausoleum-chapel built in the late 19th century. This rectangular building is designed in a Romanesque style, consisting of a nave and a smaller chancel to the east. It is constructed of rubble with red sandstone dressings and has narrow arched lights on its walls. The roof is made of grey slate, complemented by red sandstone skews and skewputts. The west elevation includes a gabled entrance porch that houses a collection of carved stones. A cross is positioned at the apex of the gablehead.
The graveyard contains a variety of predominantly 19th century headstone graves, including several column memorials. A notable feature is a cross memorial on a mound to the south of the burial chapel, dedicated to John McTaggart esquire of Ardwell, dated 18 October 1810. The graveyard is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall, which includes two pairs of rock-faced square-plan gatepiers. The entrance gatepiers are topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Kirkmadrine Church And Burial-Ground sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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