Dumfries Baptist Church, Newall Terrace, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Dumfries Baptist Church, Newall Terrace, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- inner-buttress-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07106, -3.60758
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dumfries Baptist Church, designed by Francis Armstrong in 1880, is a classical, two-storey building with a rectangular plan, situated in a garden area at the corner of Catherine Street. The front is made of polished red ashlar, while the sides and rear are constructed from bull-faced stone.
The church features a symmetrical seven-bay elevation facing Newall Terrace, with a prominent pediment above the projecting three-bay center. It has a moulded plinth and a channelled ground floor, with coupled Roman Doric pilasters at the corners that support a heavy entablature and parapet. The central entrance is composed of three doors flanked by piers and accessed by two steps. The flanks exhibit a Thomsonesque style, with two five-window pilastrades above three single lights. At the back, there is a narrower outshot with two-storey office buildings filling the angles, and the windows are divided in a Thomsonesque T-pattern. The roofs are covered with slate.
The church is enclosed by a low red ashlar boundary wall featuring square piers.
Local climate
Dumfries Baptist Church, Newall Terrace, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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