Canonbie Parish Churchyard and Donaldson Monument, Canonbie is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Churchyard.
Canonbie Parish Churchyard and Donaldson Monument, Canonbie
- WRENN ID
- secret-rafter-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Churchyard
- OS grid reference
- NY 394 762
- Coordinates
- 55.07725, -2.95025
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Canonbie Parish Churchyard features a roughly triangular layout and includes a re-erected Romanesque sedilia arch. The churchyard is enclosed by rubble-built walls topped with ashlar coping, and there is a wrought-iron gate at the northeast corner that dates from 1909. The site contains mainly 18th and 19th century carved headstones. The sedilia is the only surviving recognizable fragment of a nearby priory and has been adapted as the Donaldson monument, which includes a moulded and arched recess with dog-tooth ornament and carved label stops. There is also an anonymous square-plan mausoleum built of ashlar with crenellations from the earlier to mid-19th century, as well as a piend-roofed watch house located to the west.
Local climate
Canonbie Parish Churchyard and Donaldson Monument, Canonbie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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