Burial-Ground, Old Street, Girvan is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1980. Arch.
Burial-Ground, Old Street, Girvan
- WRENN ID
- final-steel-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1980
- Type
- Arch
- OS grid reference
- NX 186 982
- Coordinates
- 55.2451, -4.85439
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The burial ground on Old Street in Girvan features a triumphal arch built in 1908, set within a balustraded wall. The archway is supported by pairs of Roman Doric engaged columns that are widely spaced, with one similar pair on each return elevation. The structure includes a tall parapet and a walled forecourt, which is marked by square-plan corniced gatepiers and cast-iron gates. Additionally, there are two bold obelisks on each side wall between the angle piers. The site also contains some interesting monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Local climate
Burial-Ground, Old Street, Girvan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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