Main Gate, St Michael's Churchyard, St Michael Street, Dumfries is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 July 1961. Churchyard, mausoleum.
Main Gate, St Michael's Churchyard, St Michael Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- fallow-rubble-hazel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1961
- Type
- Churchyard, mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NX 975 756
- Coordinates
- 55.06516, -3.60581
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Main Gate at St Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries is an irregular-plan enclosure that includes the church, Burns' mausoleum, and a significant collection of fine monuments, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries. The gate is located at the northwest and features tall pilastered piers topped with urn finials, which may date back to the mid-18th century. These piers house watch houses and are accompanied by wrought-iron gates and an overthrow. The enclosure walls are built from rubble. Notable features include the grand baroque Sharp of Hoddom monument from around 1710, which was restored in 1894, as well as martyr's slabs and a granite obelisk monument from 1834 inscribed "A Newall." There are also many tall upright slabs, including monuments to the Hood family created by Walter Newall. The site also includes an enclosure related to the cholera epidemic, as well as the Holy Cross churchyard and chapel.
Local climate
Main Gate, St Michael's Churchyard, St Michael Street, Dumfries 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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