Vale Of Leven Cemetery, Alexandria is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996.

Vale Of Leven Cemetery, Alexandria

WRENN ID
inner-iron-ochre
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
OS grid reference
NS 384 797
Coordinates
55.98308, -4.59064
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Vale of Leven Cemetery in Alexandria features a bridge designed by James Wilson of Greenock in 1881. This double garden cemetery is situated on a hillside overlooking the town.

The boundary wall is constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone rubble topped with ashlar coping. It includes decorative cast-iron pierced piers with urn finials, as well as decorative cast-iron railings and a pedestrian gate to the right.

The bridge spans a path over a burn, leading to a secondary graveyard. It is adorned with a decorative entwined vesical pierced balustrade and small terminal piers capped with pyramids.

Within the cemetery, there are various memorials from the late 19th century, including an obelisk and a trumpet-blowing angel dedicated to Mary Thurburn from 1889. The Kinloch family memorial features a Greek design with a funeral urn and an ashlar casket beneath an arch, commemorating the death of the infant son of Thomas Kinloch.

Local climate

Vale Of Leven Cemetery, Alexandria sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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