Kirkhill Burial Ground, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Burial ground.
Kirkhill Burial Ground, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- high-rotunda-winter
- 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 249 627
- Coordinates
- 57.64795, -3.25957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkhill Burial Ground in Elgin is a polygonal walled burial site located on the grounds of an early church. The burial ground features earlier 19th century rubble walls that have a tooled rounded cope. There are also a pair of square gatepiers made of tooled ashlar, which have deep cornices at the tops, and a pair of cast-iron carriage gates with spearhead designs. The site includes tombstones from the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, and later. Additionally, there is a square private burial enclosure from the earlier 18th century, constructed of rubble and featuring moulded ashlar jambs for the doorpiece and a moulded cornice along the wallhead.
Local climate
Kirkhill Burial Ground, Elgin 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 lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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