Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Kirkcowan is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972.
Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Kirkcowan
- WRENN ID
- shifting-paling-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 329 605
- Coordinates
- 54.91208, -4.60747
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The ivy-clad ruins of the old parish church and burial ground likely date to the 18th century. Only the east gable remains, and it is heavily overgrown with ivy, lacking any readily visible architectural details. The churchyard is enclosed by a rubble wall with two cast-iron gates.
The entrance is marked by pairs of rubble gate piers; one pair has chamfered ashlar coping, while the other features rubble construction with granite coping and ball finials.
The churchyard contains a variety of interesting gravestones, with a mix of 18th and 19th-century examples.
Local climate
Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Kirkcowan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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