Mausoleum, Dalziel Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 October 1978. Mausoleum.
Mausoleum, Dalziel Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- eternal-keystone-reed
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke MP: Pamela Nash (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1978
- Type
- Mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NS 755 548
- Coordinates
- 55.77103, -3.98614
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The mausoleum at Dalziel Burial Ground is an early 19th-century structure. It is a single-storey, gabled building with a rectangular plan, constructed from squared and droved sandstone. The design features a cavetto moulded eaves course, rusticated quoins, and narrow ventilation slits.
On the northeast elevation, there is a central doorway with a lugged, moulded architrave and a yett, flanked by ventilation slits. Above the doorway, a rectangular, moulded framed panel made of red sandstone displays the Hamilton of Dalzell arms at the apex of the gable. The southwest elevation features a blind cinquefoil at its center, while the southeast elevation has three bays with slits in the second and third bays. The northwest elevation mirrors the southeast side. The slates have been stripped since the date of listing, revealing large slab stones and narrow skews.
Inside, the mausoleum has a stone barrel vault. The southwest rear wall was remodeled in the later 19th century in a Romanesque style, featuring ovolo, billet, and chevron moulded framing arches supported by paired engaged columns with stiff-leaf capitals. There is a dado height, moulded semicircular arched blind arcade on the rear wall and the first bay of the side walls, with engaged columns that have scalloped capitals. The left bays of the rear arcading contain three polychrome mosaic memorial panels, with inscriptions at the lower parts and foliate patterns in the style of Owen Jones at the upper parts. The tympanum features a blind cavetto moulded cinquefoil.
The churchyard is the medieval site of St. Patrick's Church and has a levelled rectangular layout. It contains numerous legible gravestones dating from 1707 to the early 20th century, with the majority from 1820 to 1900.
The boundary wall, dating from the early 19th century, is made of squared and droved coped sandstone and includes a segmentally-arched carriage entrance at the northwest corner. There is also a brick wall enclosing the Hamilton of Dalzell family burial area in the northeast corner within the overall boundary.
Local climate
Mausoleum, Dalziel Burial Ground sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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