Wamphray Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Wamphray Church
- WRENN ID
- lone-spandrel-azure
- 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 130 964
- Coordinates
- 55.25464, -3.36917
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wamphray Church, designed by William MacGowan in 1834, is a simple rectangular-plan church with three bays. It features round-headed windows with intersecting tracery and a bird-cage belfry above the west gable. There is a tall gabled vestry and hall that is off-centre on the east gable. The church is enclosed by a churchyard.
The church is built of rubble with contrasting red ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. The main entrance is a square-headed door on the west gable, which incorporates a carved medieval slab as a lintel, set in a shallow projecting vertical strip that links to the belfry. A ball finial is located over the east gable. The vestry and hall have doors on each side, with modern glazing below the slate-hung gable head. The roof is covered with graded slates. The interior is simple and was renovated in 1899, featuring a pulpit at the east and a panelled vestibule at the west.
The churchyard is enclosed by rubble-built walls, with the main gate located on the east side. It was extended to the north in the 20th century and contains mostly 18th and 19th century carved stone monuments. Notable features include the Rogerson burial enclosure, made of red ashlar with rusticated quoins, which has a memorial to Dr John Rogerson (1741-1823), the first physician to the emperor of Russia, and the Carruthers of Milne column near the main gate.
Local climate
Wamphray Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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