St Kennera Church And Churchyard, Main Street, Kirkinner is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979.
St Kennera Church And Churchyard, Main Street, Kirkinner
- WRENN ID
- veiled-attic-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 423 514
- Coordinates
- 54.83327, -4.45658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Kennera Church, built in 1828 by builder Paul McClure, is a rectangular Gothic hall church located on Main Street in Kirkinner. It features a tower on the west side and a small vestry on the east gable. The church is constructed with rubble walling and polished red sandstone dressings. Its three-bay side walls are buttressed and have pointed-arch perpendicular traceried windows with lozenge glazing. The squat tower has two uneven stages, marked by angle buttresses and string courses, with a square-headed chamfered door at the ground level, blind lancets above, and a louvred belfry topped with an embattled parapet.
Inside, the church has a panel-fronted gallery on three sides, supported by four small cast-iron columns and two larger timber columns. The pulpit is octagonal and panelled, resembling a wine-glass, and is set on a raised podium with barley sugar twist balusters on the stairs. A delicate plaster ceiling rose adds to the interior's charm.
Within the church, there is an ancient stone Celtic cross. The churchyard, enclosed by rubble walls, contains many notable 18th century gravestones.
In the southeast corner of the churchyard stands the Van Agnew Mausoleum, an outstanding 18th century classical mausoleum that is currently in a ruinous condition. It is rectangular in plan and constructed of ashlar, featuring Ionic pilasters, keystoned arches, niches, and carved armorials.
Local climate
St Kennera Church And Churchyard, Main Street, Kirkinner sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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