Canonbie Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church.
Canonbie Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- endless-doorway-blackthorn
- 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
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NY 395 763
- Coordinates
- 55.0777, -2.94912
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Canonbie Parish Church, designed by architect William Atkinson, was built in 1822. It is a large, symmetrical church with a rectangular plan and features Tudor and Gothic details. The church has a three-stage square tower centrally located on the long west wall, with a gabled vestry and session house on the east wall, directly opposite. The exterior is constructed of stugged yellow ashlar with polished dressings, and it includes pointed, mostly Tudor-arched openings with small-paned windows. The tower and bays are supported by set-back buttresses.
The tower features hood-moulded openings at the ground level, including a door in the south re-entrant angle, and smaller plain windows on the second stage. Each face of the belfry stage has a louvred, hood-moulded opening with Y-tracery, topped by a castellated parapet.
The body of the church consists of five bays, with ground and gallery windows. Each wide gable has a shallow porch and three identical gallery windows. There is a wall-head stack above the vestry, and the church has shaped raised skews and slate roofs.
Inside, the church features panelled woodwork and a gallery that extends along three walls, supported by circular cast-iron columns. The pulpit is centrally located on the west wall, with organ tubes positioned above the gallery on the opposite side. The seating includes box pews.
Local climate
Canonbie Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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