Cemetery enclosure, Nunton Former Chapel is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Cemetery enclosure.

Cemetery enclosure, Nunton Former Chapel

WRENN ID
muted-roof-smoke
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Cemetery enclosure
OS grid reference
NF 766 537
Coordinates
57.45848, -7.39464
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The cemetery enclosure at Nunton Former Chapel features rubble walls and an iron fence. It was extended to the south in the late 19th century and again in the later 20th century. There is an iron-railed enclosure at the northeast corner. The inscribed tombstones date mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Local climate

Cemetery enclosure, Nunton Former Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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