Gala Burial Aisle, Church Street, Galashiels is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. Burial aisle, graveyard.
Gala Burial Aisle, Church Street, Galashiels
- WRENN ID
- brooding-facade-coral
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1971
- Type
- Burial aisle, graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NT 494 357
- Coordinates
- 55.61233, -2.80403
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gala Burial Aisle, located on Church Street in Galashiels, dates back to 1636 and has undergone later alterations. It is a small rectangular building with a gabled roof. The gables feature pointed arched plate tracery windows, while the west side has a semi-circular arched doorway with imposts. The roof is steeply pitched, and there is a moulded eaves course that extends around the gables, creating hoodmoulds over the arched windows. The structure is built of finely sized random rubble, with irregular red sandstone quoins and margins, stone skews, and metal grilles on the open windows. The door is boarded and has bolt heads.
Surrounding the burial aisle is a graveyard with boundary walls and gates. To the south, there is a coped rubble wall with raised sections that incorporate tombstones. Decorative cast-iron gates are located to the southeast, and there are railings along the northern boundary on a retaining wall. The graveyard contains predominantly 18th and 19th century gravestones, with some dating back to 1600.
Local climate
Gala Burial Aisle, Church Street, Galashiels receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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