Wanlockhead Church, Church Street, Wanlockhead is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.

Wanlockhead Church, Church Street, Wanlockhead

WRENN ID
lapsed-postern-scarlet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Church
Address
Wanlockhead Church, Church Street, Wanlockhead, ML12 6XG
OS grid reference
NS 870 130
Coordinates
55.39879, -3.78458
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wanlockhead Church, built in 1848, is a rectangular-plan, four-bay Gothic church. It features whitewashed rubble with ashlar dressings, while the west gable is harled. The church has pointed openings with hood-moulded windows and a gabled porch at the west end of the north wall. A vestry is located diagonally opposite, and the structure includes stepped buttresses. The east gable has a three-light window, while the west window is blocked. The roof is adorned with saw-toothed skews and cross finials, covered with graded slates.

Inside, the church is now partitioned, with only the eastern half used for services. It contains a pulpit with steps on either side and a leaded east window created by Wm. Meikle and Sons of Glasgow in 1911. The interior also features painted dados and simple stencilling.

Local climate

Wanlockhead Church, Church Street, Wanlockhead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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