Barnhill Cemetery, Barnhill, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991.
Barnhill Cemetery, Barnhill, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pavement-peregrine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1991
- OS grid reference
- NO 473 318
- Coordinates
- 56.4758, -2.85697
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barnhill Cemetery, opened in 1869, is a large municipal cemetery situated in Dundee. It was established to replace the Old Burial Ground at Chapel Lane, a decision partly driven by a cholera epidemic in 1866. The cemetery contains numerous notable 19th-century gravestones.
The boundary is defined by rubble walls on the north, east, and west sides, stepped at intervals and topped with saddleback coping. A lower wall with iron railings runs along the south side. Two buttressed gatepiers of octagonal ashlar construction stand at Strathmore Street, each topped with elaborate finialled pyramidal caps, and flanked by cast and wrought-iron gates. A second pair of gatepiers, chamfered and square in section, are located at Edzell Street, with gablet caps, and also feature cast and wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Barnhill Cemetery, Barnhill, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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