St Martin's Burial Ground And Sinclair Mausoleum, Ulbster is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. Mausoleum, burial ground. 1 related planning application.

St Martin's Burial Ground And Sinclair Mausoleum, Ulbster

WRENN ID
idle-banister-violet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1971
Type
Mausoleum, burial ground
OS grid reference
ND 335 418
Coordinates
58.36011, -3.13701
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Martin's Burial Ground and Sinclair Mausoleum is a mausoleum dated 1700, featuring a square single-storey design that is harled with chamfered ashlar margins. The south elevation has a raised central entrance, which is accessed by a wide flight of stone steps. There is a small window at the rear center and a larger blind window in the east elevation, which has a re-used worn cill and small flanking apertures. The roof is made of ogee Caithness slate and has a stone apex finial, along with a small wrought-iron flag dated 1700.

Inside, the mausoleum has a plain interior with a raised and boarded floor above the vault.

The burial ground is a simple square area enclosed by walls, featuring a tall pair of rusticated ashlar gate piers from around 1700 that flank the south entrance. These gate piers have wide moulded cornices and urn finials. The walls are constructed from simple dry stone with a rough coping. The burial ground is full, with tombstones that date from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Local climate

St Martin's Burial Ground And Sinclair Mausoleum, Ulbster receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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