St John's Old Church, St John's Town Of Dalry is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Church.
St John's Old Church, St John's Town Of Dalry
- WRENN ID
- odd-keep-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 618 811
- Coordinates
- 55.10574, -4.16654
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St John's Old Church in St John's Town of Dalry consists of fragmentary ruins from the 16th century, which were largely restored in 1939. It serves as the burial place of the Gordons of Lochinvar. The current structure has a square plan and is part of a larger church. The southern gable is intact up to the wall-head and features crowsteps, most of which were added during the 1939 restoration. The walls are constructed of rubble with squared quoins and either chamfered or roll-moulded margins. There is a large roll-moulded window in the southern gable, which has an iron grille added in 1939. Above this window, in a roll-moulded panel, is a marriage escutcheon with the initials IG and MC, representing James Gordon and Margaret Crichton, although the date is now illegible, it is said to be from 1576.
Local climate
St John's Old Church, St John's Town Of Dalry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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