Dunoon High Kirk, Kirk Street, Dunoon is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.

Dunoon High Kirk, Kirk Street, Dunoon

WRENN ID
crooked-wattle-sage
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 174 765
Coordinates
55.94718, -4.92541
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dunoon High Kirk, located on Kirk Street in Dunoon, was built in 1816 by architect J. Gillespie Graham from Edinburgh. The church was enlarged in 1834 by David Hamilton from Glasgow, and in 1839, the tower was raised by 8 feet. This building is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features a nave and transepts with a tower at the east end. The structure is made of coursed rubble and has slate roofs. Notable architectural details include decorated windows, a crenellated wall-head and gables, and pinnacles at the corners. The square tower is divided into three stages and features a crenellated parapet, pinnacles, and lancet windows. A clock with four faces, presented by William Campbell of Castle House, is also part of the church.

Local climate

Dunoon High Kirk, Kirk Street, Dunoon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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