Old Stow Kirk Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Burial ground.

Old Stow Kirk Burial Ground

WRENN ID
weathered-chalk-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NT 459 445
Coordinates
55.69165, -2.86161
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Stow Kirk Burial Ground is primarily an 18th and 19th century burial site, featuring some earlier gravestones. It contains a notable collection of memorials and enclosures, including several tomb tables located to the south of the church. One significant feature is the Tait of Pirn enclosure on the south wall, which has engaged Tuscan columns designed by the sculptor Archibald Ritchie in 1851. The burial ground is bordered by coped rubble walls along the road, which are complemented by pyramid-capped gatepiers.

Local climate

Old Stow Kirk Burial Ground 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 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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