Burial Ground, Old Boleskine Church, Boleskine is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Burial Ground, Old Boleskine Church, Boleskine
- WRENN ID
- turning-nave-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 507 221
- Coordinates
- 57.26547, -4.47641
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old Boleskine Parish Church in Boleskine features a simple burial ground enclosed by rubble walls. It contains the remains of an earlier church and serves as a rectangular burial site for the Frasers of Balnain, Culduthel, and Boleskine Parish. The site includes various fine tombstones and memorials from the 18th and 19th centuries, including a memorial to Alexander Fraser of Dell, who lived from 1762 to 1814. Additionally, there is a small rectangular watch house from the early 19th century, constructed of rubble, with a small window on the south elevation, an end stack, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Burial Ground, Old Boleskine Church, Boleskine 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 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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