Free Church, Canonbie is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1988. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Free Church, Canonbie
- WRENN ID
- steep-fireplace-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1988
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NY 388 770
- Coordinates
- 55.08433, -2.96002
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church in Canonbie, opened on January 5, 1851, is a rectangular-plan, five-bay Gothic church featuring buttresses. It is constructed from stugged grey ashlar with polished dressings. The church has single openings, mostly hood-moulded and with pointed heads. A gabled porch is located at the east end of the south wall, while a vestry is at the west end of the north wall. The porch has a south-facing door set in moulded reveals, and there are single lights in the buttressed bays. A continuous string at cill level is raised as a hood-mould over the central door on the east gable, with three single lights stepped above this door. The church also features a gabled belfry, saw-toothed skews, and gabletted skewputts, all topped with a slate roof.
Inside, there is a pulpit with a panelled front against the west gable, flanked by steps with ornamental wooden balustrades. The roof timbers rest on stone corbels.
Local climate
Free Church, Canonbie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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