Obelisk And Burial Ground, Balavil is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Obelisk, burial ground.
Obelisk And Burial Ground, Balavil
- WRENN ID
- burning-gargoyle-yarrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Obelisk, burial ground
- OS grid reference
- NH 787 020
- Coordinates
- 57.09325, -4.00212
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Obelisk and Burial Ground at Balavil, dating from around 1796, features a short obelisk made from various materials. It has a white marble plinth adorned with a relief portrait of James MacPherson on the north side and a weeping woman on the south side. The plinth is topped with a grey marble cornice, which supports a slate obelisk that has a white marble crest on the north facet and an urn at the apex.
The burial ground includes a circular burial enclosure from the later 19th century, surrounded by decorative spearhead cast-iron railings set on a low ashlar coped rubble wall. There are also two slender cast-iron piers that support a matching pair of gates.
Within the burial ground, there are various MacPherson tombstones, the earliest of which is dated 1876.
Local climate
Obelisk And Burial Ground, Balavil sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 86 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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