Graveyard, St Drostan's Chapel is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
Graveyard, St Drostan's Chapel
- WRENN ID
- small-wall-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NH 822 046
- Coordinates
- 57.1174, -3.94586
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Drostan's Chapel is a small, simple ruinous church from the late or post-medieval period. The entrance features later pilasters that date back to 1780, which flank the round-headed entrance in the center of the west gable. These pilasters are made of polished ashlar granite and have cornices, with inscribed commemorative plaques; one plaque has fallen from its seating and is propped against the wall. The east gable has a round-headed window, and there is similar small fenestration in the two-bay long north and south elevations. Surrounding the chapel is a rectangular burial ground made of rubble walls, which is now much overgrown, with two tombs visible.
Local climate
Graveyard, St Drostan's Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 85 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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