Cemetery, Wanlockhead is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Burial enclosure.
Cemetery, Wanlockhead
- WRENN ID
- young-chapel-honey
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Burial enclosure
- OS grid reference
- NS 864 135
- Coordinates
- 55.40307, -3.79442
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The cemetery in Wanlockhead is a quadrangular burial enclosure with walls made of rubble. It features two gates on the east side, flanked by corniced square gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps. Inside, there are mostly 18th and 19th century stone monuments, many of which display classical ornamentation.
Local climate
Cemetery, Wanlockhead 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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