Southwick Old Churchyard is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Burial enclosure.
Southwick Old Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- night-pediment-amber
- 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
- Burial enclosure
- OS grid reference
- NX 906 569
- Coordinates
- 54.89502, -3.70658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Southwick Old Churchyard is a burial enclosure with rubble walls. It contains several notable gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries, including a small and charming example featuring a skeleton and the inscription "HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI."
Local climate
Southwick Old Churchyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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