Church And Churchyard, Keir Mill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Church And Churchyard, Keir Mill
- WRENN ID
- young-hinge-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 859 932
- Coordinates
- 55.21993, -3.79406
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a Gothic church built in 1814, designed by William Burn. It has a rectangular plan with three bays. A three-stage square tower is set into the western gable, and an octagonal stair turret is positioned at the angles of the tower. A low, narrow chancel and vestry were added in 1880 by James Barbour of Dumfries.
The church is constructed of stugged pink ashlar, with polished dressings contrasting in red sandstone. It features Tudor-arched windows with perpendicular tracery and buttresses that extend above the eaves. The tower has a door facing west, chamfered angles, and an off-set top stage with a crenellated parapet. The stair turret rises above the south-west angle, with louvered openings on each face and a faceted, finialed roof. The windows on the west face are hood-moulded. A lean-to vestry is located in the south-east re-entrant angle. The structure has a slate roof.
The interior was remodelled by Barbour, mostly in 1880. Notable features include an organ gallery from 1905, framed with a cusped head, an open timber roof, and a panelled reredos. The windows are hood-moulded.
The churchyard is quadrangular and enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls, which incorporate a cottage at the south end. A gate is located to the west of the cottage, and the walls are flanked by corniced, square gate piers topped with pyramidal caps. The churchyard contains 19th and 20th-century stone monuments.
The church is an ecclesiastical building in current use. There was a delay before its construction; a plan for a new church had earlier been produced in 1812 by William Elliot, the architect at Drumlanrig.
Local climate
Church And Churchyard, Keir Mill 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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