1863 Cemetery extension is a Grade A listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971.

1863 Cemetery extension

WRENN ID
secret-mantel-equinox
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
East Dunbartonshire
Constituency
Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 May 1971
OS grid reference
NS 664 730
Coordinates
55.93174, -4.13846
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Aisle Cemetery features an early 18th-century design with additions made in 1863. The entrance includes a rubble gateway with a rusticated V-jointed ashlar round-arch, topped by a square-plan coursed sandstone ashlar watch-house. This watch-house has a slabbed pyramidal roof and is accessed by an open stone staircase to the north. It also has a square birdcage belfry and small square openings on the east and west elevations, along with a short square chimneystack at the southeast corner. The watch-house and gateway are linked to a coped rubble boundary wall that encloses an earlier burial ground, which is part of a larger cemetery that was expanded in 1863.

The gatelodge, built in 1863, is a single-storey, T-plan structure made of squared rubble located at the northeast entrance. It features a basecourse and eavescourse, straight quoins, and stone cills. There is a porch at the east re-entrant angle and a flat-roof extension to the west, with boarded-up windows and tall corniced ashlar stacks.

The cemetery also includes pyramidal stone gatepiers at the northeast and northwest entrances, along with a coped rubble boundary wall that encloses the burial ground. Inside the cemetery, there is a variety of 19th-century monuments, including a Gothic red sandstone monument to Beatrice Clugston, created by W F Salmon in 1891, which features a bronze portrait relief by Pittendrigh MacGillvray.

Local climate

1863 Cemetery extension sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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