Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Rafford is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. Burial ground.
Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Rafford
- WRENN ID
- empty-iron-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- Burial ground
- OS grid reference
- NJ 059 561
- Coordinates
- 57.58576, -3.57391
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Parish Church and Burial Ground in Rafford is a burial ground enclosed by rubble walls, marking the site of a former church. Within the grounds, there are various burial enclosures featuring memorials dating from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, likely using materials from the old church. Notable are the substantial 18th-century tombstones. The entrance is flanked by a pair of square, tooled ashlar gatepiers topped with shallow pyramidal caps, which support a pair of cast-iron carriage gates.
Local climate
Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Rafford 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 lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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