Morton Old Church and Churchyard is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Churchyard enclosure.

Morton Old Church and Churchyard

WRENN ID
dusted-arch-sunrise
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 enclosure
OS grid reference
NX 890 969
Coordinates
55.25436, -3.74753
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Morton Old Church and Churchyard is an irregularly shaped churchyard enclosure that features numerous stone monuments and fragments dating from the 17th to the 19th century. Among these is the north gable with a belfry from a church built around 1792. A stream runs through the enclosure at the eastern side. The walls of the enclosure are constructed from rubble with red ashlar coping. There is a gate located to the south, flanked by square gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps.

Local climate

Morton Old Church and Churchyard 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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