Burial Ground, St Peter's Church, Essil is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Burial ground.

Burial Ground, St Peter's Church, Essil

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NJ 339 634
Coordinates
57.65612, -3.1082
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The burial ground at St Peter's Church in Essil is a roughly circular area enclosed by rubble walls, situated on a mounded site. The entrance is located on the east side and is flanked by mid-19th century octagonal gatepiers that feature shallow facetted caps, along with a pair of cast-iron gates. Inside the burial ground, there are various tombstones dating from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Local climate

Burial Ground, St Peter's Church, Essil sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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