Old Church, Virginhall is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Old Church, Virginhall
- WRENN ID
- dark-loggia-weasel
- Grade
- C
- 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
- Address
- Old Church, Virginhall, DG3 4AD
- OS grid reference
- NX 864 954
- Coordinates
- 55.24026, -3.78744
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Church at Virginhall was built around 1843 by contractor John Jardine and masons Messrs MacLauchlan from Gatelawbridge, with Samuel Bell as the joiner. This former Free Church is situated on a sloping site and has a plain rectangular shape, featuring a lower vestry attached to the west gable. At the basement level, there is a west-facing flat-arched cartway. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, and it has painted margins around the tall, round-headed windows, most of which are now blocked.
The north wall features a gabled red ashlar porch with a central round-headed doorway, while the west side has an off-centre entrance. There are five windows on the north wall and four on the south wall, along with three-light windows in the east gable. A bronze birdcage belfry sits above the west gable, topped with a tall weathervane finial. The church is covered with slate roofs.
Local climate
Old Church, Virginhall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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 — 4 applications
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