Churchyard, Avoch Parish Church, Braehead, Avoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. Churchyard wall.
Churchyard, Avoch Parish Church, Braehead, Avoch
- WRENN ID
- swift-gateway-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- OS grid reference
- NH 701 552
- Coordinates
- 57.56818, -4.17325
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard wall at Avoch Parish Church is built from rubble and features a dressed coping that encloses a graveyard. This graveyard contains tombstones from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the grave of Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Avoch, who died in 1820 and is known for discovering the Mackenzie River in Canada. There is also a late 19th-century Gothic enclosure for James Fletcher of Rosehaugh and his wife. The entrance is marked by square gate piers topped with pyramidal coping, which support a wrought-iron curvilinear scroll bracket with a lamp in the center.
Local climate
Churchyard, Avoch Parish Church, Braehead, Avoch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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