Johnstone United Presbyterian Church, Hoddom Road, Ecclefechan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 2 related planning applications.

Johnstone United Presbyterian Church, Hoddom Road, Ecclefechan

WRENN ID
keen-storey-woodpecker
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
OS grid reference
NY 192 745
Coordinates
55.0588, -3.26565
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an 1865 church building, originally built as a United Presbyterian church and now serving as Hoddom parish church after a fire destroyed the previous parish church in 1975. The church is a T-plan design with simplified Gothic detailing. The exterior is primarily stugged red ashlar with polished dressings, featuring tall, narrow windows with elongated cusped heads, mostly hood-moulded. A three-stage gabled square tower is situated on the north flank of the nave. The first stage of the tower is outwardly expressed by parallel diagonal courses and stepped window levels, incorporating stairs within. The middle stage is designed to accommodate clock faces, while the top stage has louvred openings in gables and gabled dormer heads. A continuous string is raised as a hood-mould above the main door on the west gable and incorporates blind flanking quatrefoils. The roof is covered in slate, with gabletted saw-toothed skews. A transversely set hall and church officer's flat abuts the east gable, with the hall facing door featuring shouldered-headed lights above.

The interior contains three linked galleries supported by cast-iron columns with panelled fronts. The pulpit is recessed behind a large archway and features a decorative cast-iron balustraded front with Gothic details. An "altar rail" also incorporates good cast-iron work. The church grounds are enclosed by cast-iron gates and railings supported by gabletted square red ashlar piers.

Local climate

Johnstone United Presbyterian Church, Hoddom Road, Ecclefechan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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