Loreburn United Free Church, Loreburn Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Church.
Loreburn United Free Church, Loreburn Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- floating-pillar-aspen
- Grade
- C
- 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 972 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07091, -3.61003
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Loreburn United Free Church, located on Loreburn Street in Dumfries, was designed by Crombie and Son in 1879 and incorporates an earlier church from 1829. The church features a three-bay street elevation, consisting of a nave and aisles, with square porches at the recessed flanking bays. It is constructed from red ashlar and includes hood-moulded pointed openings and pinnacled buttresses. The tall Y-traceried windows are positioned at gallery level and below the gable head, with flanking aisle windows that have deep decorative parapets above them. The porches also feature parapets and pointed doorways, and the building is topped with a slate roof.
Inside, the church has a gallery that extends along three sides, with a panelled front supported by decorative cast-iron columns. The pulpit and organ are located at the eastern end, with halls situated at the rear.
Local climate
Loreburn United Free Church, Loreburn Street, 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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