Churchyard With Jougs, Dunsyre Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971.
Churchyard With Jougs, Dunsyre Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- slow-hammer-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 071 481
- Coordinates
- 55.71748, -3.4791
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard at Dunsyre Parish Church includes a collection of funerary monuments dating from 1820, incorporating earlier fragments, alongside later furniture and the addition of jougs. The churchyard is described in “Architecture of Scottish Post Reformation Churches” on pages 240 and 262.
Local climate
Churchyard With Jougs, Dunsyre Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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