Old Parish Churchyard, High Street, Kingussie is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Burial ground.

Old Parish Churchyard, High Street, Kingussie

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 December 1979
Type
Burial ground
Address
Old Parish Churchyard, High Street, Kingussie, PH21 1HZ
OS grid reference
NH 758 006
Coordinates
57.08026, -4.0497
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Parish Churchyard, located off High Street in Kingussie, features a burial ground with rubble walls. The pedestrian entrance is flanked by a pair of early to mid-18th century cornices with stepped caps that support ball finials, although one ball finial is missing. Inside the churchyard, there are several tombstones from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Local climate

Old Parish Churchyard, High Street, Kingussie 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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