St Dionysius Churchyard is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. Graveyard.
St Dionysius Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- sombre-attic-grain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1999
- Type
- Graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NT 928 609
- Coordinates
- 55.84156, -2.11625
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Dionysius Churchyard is a near square-plan graveyard located to the northeast of Ayton Parish Church, surrounding the remains of St Dionysius' Church to the north. The graveyard features a variety of gravestones from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including table-top monuments, stones with classical detailing, earlier examples that include memento mori, and family burial enclosures.
The entrance to the graveyard is marked by plain iron gatepiers that flank both vehicular and pedestrian entrances to the south, accompanied by plain iron railings and gates.
Local climate
St Dionysius Churchyard receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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