Alloway Kirk Graveyard is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Graveyard.

Alloway Kirk Graveyard

WRENN ID
grim-rampart-cedar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
Graveyard
OS grid reference
NS 332 180
Coordinates
55.42796, -4.6374
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Alloway Kirk Graveyard is a near square-plan graveyard primarily featuring 19th century headstones, some of which have railed areas. A notable headstone is that of William Burnes, the father of poet Robert Burns, who was buried here in 1784. In the southwest corner, there is a mausoleum for Lieutenant General Hughes of Mount Charles, who was buried in 1832. This mausoleum includes architraved openings flanked by fluted columns, pilaster angles, a triglyph entablature, a mutulated cornice, and a blocking course.

The graveyard has stone gatepiers and a set of two-leaf iron gates at the central entrance. To the left, there is an iron railed stone stair, and the site is enclosed by a coped boundary wall.

Local climate

Alloway Kirk Graveyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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