Currie Kirk, Kirkgate, Currie is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Church.
Currie Kirk, Kirkgate, Currie
- WRENN ID
- waning-ember-hyssop
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Currie Kirk, Kirkgate, Currie, EH14 6AL
- OS grid reference
- NT 183 676
- Coordinates
- 55.89506, -3.30799
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Currie Kirk, located on Kirkgate in Currie, was designed by James Thomson of Leith and constructed between 1784 and 1785. This building features a classical style combined with gothic windows and is made of coursed rubble. The north side has five bays, with a three-bay projection that includes a gallery stair, topped by a square clock stage and an octagonal belfry stage with a stone spire. The Y-traceried windows have small-paned glazing, and the south elevation has four windows, with those beside the pulpit enlarged by D Cousin in 1848. The roof is piended.
Inside, the church was redesigned by David Bryce in 1835, featuring a horseshoe gallery with the pulpit located on the south side. There is a coach niche set in Corinthian columns and a coved ceiling. The building was constructed on the site of a medieval church, and the chancel was restored as a session house in 1953.
Local climate
Currie Kirk, Kirkgate, Currie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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