Johnstone Mausoleum, Westerkirk Parish Church is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Mausoleum.
Johnstone Mausoleum, Westerkirk Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- guardian-timber-saffron
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NY 312 903
- Coordinates
- 55.20259, -3.0812
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Johnstone Mausoleum, located at Westerkirk Parish Church, was designed by Robert Adam around 1790. This classical mausoleum features a square plan and a domed roof, constructed from lightly droved grey ashlar with polished dressings. The roof is leaded and topped with a ball finial.
On the south elevation, a pediment above the central doorway is supported by paired engaged Greek Doric columns. The frieze is decorated with bucrania, and the doorway itself is round-headed with a keystone, featuring pilastered jambs set within a square-headed panel. There are flanking alcoves beneath a fluted frieze and cornice. The inner bay of the other elevations is slightly advanced, with a niche (and a window on the north side) set in a round-headed panel.
Inside, the mausoleum has panels on the east and west walls below a continuous triglyph frieze. The metopes, which were originally decorated with models of human skulls, have been destroyed. A marble monument dated 1824 is positioned against the east wall, and the interior features a flagstone floor and a stone-vaulted ceiling.
Local climate
Johnstone Mausoleum, Westerkirk Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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