Gates & Gatepiers, Shawfield Cemetery, Shawpark Road, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996.

Gates & Gatepiers, Shawfield Cemetery, Shawpark Road, Selkirk

WRENN ID
stranded-spire-russet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1996
OS grid reference
NT 478 290
Coordinates
55.55272, -2.82888
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Brierylaw Cemetery is a formally laid out cemetery designed in a grid format, with a bridge in the southeast corner crossing Dean Burn, which leads to Shawfield Cemetery, arranged in a radial format. The gravestones and monuments date from the late 1870s. On the north side of Brierylaw Cemetery, there is an enclosure featuring a red sandstone dwarf wall that creates a small enclosure, with square-plan piers topped with scrolled coping and roundels near the top of each. The enclosure is adorned with intricate wrought-iron railings.

Among the notable gravestones is a rectangular stone with a bas-relief crucifix dedicated to Hugh Morris of Broadmeadows, who died in April 1900, and his wife Margaret, who died in August 1914. Their children, Hugh (died January 1939), John (died December 1943), William (died December 1943), and Margaret Graham (died April 1958), are also commemorated. To the right, there is a rectangular wall-mounted stone dedicated to Anna Gertrude Montgomerie Hamilton, who died in February 1937, along with others.

The boundary walls consist of rubble with roughly rounded sandstone coping. The quadrants are made of squared whinstone coped with fine arrow shaft-head cast-iron railings to the south. The gatepiers are octagonal in shape with pyramidal coping, and there are two-leaf cast-iron vehicular gates.

Local climate

Gates & Gatepiers, Shawfield Cemetery, Shawpark Road, Selkirk 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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