Walls And Gate Piers, Burial Ground, Abbey Row, Kelso is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 1980. Church.

Walls And Gate Piers, Burial Ground, Abbey Row, Kelso

WRENN ID
seventh-pinnacle-flax
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 July 1980
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NT 729 339
Coordinates
55.59848, -2.43158
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walls and gate piers of the burial ground on Abbey Row in Kelso were built in 1807. They are made of rubble with a flagged coping and were rebuilt along the west side of the Butts. The gates and gate piers date from the late 19th century and feature rectangular terminal piers with quadrant railings set on a dwarf wall, along with cast-iron gates.

Local climate

Walls And Gate Piers, Burial Ground, Abbey Row, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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