Bethany Hall, Buccleuch Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Church. 1 related planning application.

Bethany Hall, Buccleuch Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
sacred-spandrel-scarlet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1981
Type
Church
Address
Bethany Hall, Buccleuch Street, Dumfries, DG1 2AA
OS grid reference
NX 970 762
Coordinates
55.07001, -3.61356
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bethany Hall, located on Buccleuch Street in Dumfries, was designed by A Crombie and built between 1862 and 1863. This Gothic church features a main gabled elevation facing the street and has a basic rectangular plan with narrow, shallow recessed bays that may enclose stairs. The west flank, which faces Greyfriars Street, has four bays. The building is constructed of red ashlar stone and includes stepped buttresses.

The main elevation is divided by buttresses into a nave and aisles, topped with a continuous roof. It features a cusped-headed recessed door set beneath a tall gabled head, and a large traceried window above it. A string course at cill level steps over the cusped-headed aisle lights. The gable ends have gabletted and saw-toothed skews, and the roof is covered with slate, including gabled ventilators. At the eastern end, there is an apse that may replace a traceried window, along with a low vestry and boiler house also located at the east.

Local climate

Bethany Hall, Buccleuch Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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