Southwick Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Church.
Southwick Church
- WRENN ID
- burning-soffit-martin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 927 573
- Coordinates
- 54.89954, -3.67424
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Southwick Church, designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear in 1891, is a Romanesque/Early English style church built from coursed granite with red sandstone dressings, an eaves band, and quoins. The church has a T-plan layout featuring an apse and a square squat tower over the crossing, along with a 3-bay nave.
At the southwest corner, there is a porch with a round-arched portal, which includes a chevron and ball-moulded archivolt supported by nook shafts, leading to a double-leaf door. The nave windows are single light with chamfered margins, while the transept windows are 2-light with plate tracery and decorated hood-moulds. The apse has seven round-arched single light windows. The squat tower features bipartite louvred openings, a corbelled parapet, plain spout gargoyles, and steep pyramidal roofs. The sandstone skews and ridge complement the steeply pitched slate roofs.
Inside, the church has an aisleless 3-bay nave with a sandstone chancel arch. There is stained glass in the south gable and apse, a square marble font supported on colonettes, and a hexagonal carved timber pulpit.
Local climate
Southwick Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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