Churchyard, Parish Church, Hamilton is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

Churchyard, Parish Church, Hamilton

WRENN ID
tall-basalt-hazel
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Address
Churchyard, Parish Church, Hamilton, ML3 6AQ
OS grid reference
NS 723 555
Coordinates
55.77599, -4.03725
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Covenanter Martyrs Memorial is located at Hamilton Parish Church and was designed by William Adam in 1731. It features a rectangular-plan churchyard surrounded by tall coped sandstone walls. The entrance is marked by gatepiers situated to the northeast.

Local climate

Churchyard, Parish Church, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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