Borthwick Church Churchyard is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1998. Churchyard.

Borthwick Church Churchyard

WRENN ID
riven-keystone-onyx
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1998
Type
Churchyard
OS grid reference
NT 368 596
Coordinates
55.82584, -3.00905
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Borthwick Church Churchyard dates from the 12th century onwards and features a near quadrangular terraced layout. The churchyard is enclosed by a tooled, squared, and snecked sandstone wall with semi-circular coping on the west side, while the remaining walls are made of random rubble. There are iron railings on the southeast and southwest sides.

To the west, there are droved war memorial gatepiers with stop-chamfered margins and pyramidal caps, along with decorative ironwork gates topped with thistle finials, inscribed with "1914" and "1919". In the upper graveyard, the Middleton family has an enclosure in the northeast corner, the Dewar of Vogrie enclosure is located against the wall to the east, and the Kidd family enclosure, which funded the present church, is situated in the center to the east of the church.

There is a central opening in the wall to the southeast, featuring stop-chamfered, pyramidal-capped gate piers that lead to the upper terrace, which dates from around 1857. The Borthwick family burial vault is located in the east corner and is accessed via the terrace below. The Brown of Currie enclosure is adjacent.

Two flights of stone steps with iron railings, perpendicular to the buttressed wall of the upper terrace, lead down to the middle terrace. Here, there is an entrance to the Borthwick burial vault on the east side, which has a triangular arched chamfered doorway with a stepped hood mould enclosing a blank shield, flanked by vertical slit windows and buttresses, along with a timber gate to the west. The lower terrace slopes down to the south and features a four-centred doorway with a hood mould leading to a vault beneath the steps, as well as a timber gate to the southwest.

Local climate

Borthwick Church Churchyard receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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