Roslin Cemetery, Roslin is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1997. Graveyard.

Roslin Cemetery, Roslin

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1997
Type
Graveyard
OS grid reference
NT 273 630
Coordinates
55.85498, -3.16158
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Roslin Cemetery, located in Roslin, consists of two walled and gated graveyards that date from the late 19th to early 20th century, with some headstones dating back to the late 18th century. The graveyards are situated on sloping ground that falls to the southwest and are separated by a north-south track leading to Rosslyn Castle.

The upper graveyard is smaller and features boundary walls made of snecked, bull-faced sandstone with a stepped, castellated coping to the north and a shaped rubble coping for the rest. It has square-plan banded bull-faced and ashlar gatepiers topped with a polished ashlar cornice and obelisk cap, along with decorative wrought-iron gates. This area predominantly contains headstones from the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The lower graveyard is larger and also has boundary walls of snecked bull-faced sandstone with shaped rubble coping. It features square-plan bull-faced gatepiers with polished ashlar cornices and obelisk caps. This graveyard contains a mix of headstones and wall-monuments, with several dating from the late 18th century, the earliest being from 1782. Additionally, there is a single-storey, two-bay caretaker's hut made of bull-faced sandstone located against the southwest boundary wall. The hut has chamfered ashlar bipartite windows in each bay, a grey slate roof, a red clay stack on the north gablehead, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

Roslin Cemetery, Roslin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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