Carsphairn Churchyard is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Churchyard, mausoleum.
Carsphairn Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- riven-terrace-khaki
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Churchyard, mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NX 562 931
- Coordinates
- 55.21164, -4.26096
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carsphairn Churchyard features rubble walls and numerous well-crafted gravestones from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The McAdam mausoleum, built in 1838, is a square burial enclosure with rubble walls, bolection moulded eaves band, and flat coping. It has a small central pediment above the entrance, which includes an iron grille gate. An inscription in the tympanum indicates that this is the burial place of the McAdams of Waterhead, ancestors of John Loudon McAdam, the roadmaker. Inside the mausoleum, there is a heraldic panel, likely from the 17th or 18th century, which has been repositioned within a 19th-century architrave, the lintel of which is dated 1838.
Local climate
Carsphairn Churchyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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