Greyfriars Burial Ground, Canal Street, Perth is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Burial ground. 2 related planning applications.

Greyfriars Burial Ground, Canal Street, Perth

WRENN ID
dim-landing-crimson
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1965
Type
Burial ground
Address
Greyfriars Burial Ground, Canal Street, Perth, PH2 8LQ
OS grid reference
NO 119 232
Coordinates
56.3934, -3.42717
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Greyfriars Burial Ground, located on Canal Street in Perth, is an important burial ground with its earliest stone dated 1580. It contains a nationally significant collection of headstones, monuments, and mausolea from the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The boundary walls, made of rubble, were constructed around 1835. The northern entrance features squared ashlar gatepiers topped with cornices and ball-finial caps, along with a footgate to the right that has a 17th-century death's head sundial above it.

Inside the boundary walls, to the left of the entrance, is a mausoleum built around 1830. This mausoleum is adorned with Roman Doric pilasters that support a parapeted entablature featuring a wreathed frieze. Additionally, there are later ornamental metal gates at the pedestrian entrance on Tay Street.

Local climate

Greyfriars Burial Ground, Canal Street, Perth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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