Kirkcudbright Parish Church, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Parish church. 2 related planning applications.
Kirkcudbright Parish Church, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- silent-keystone-dew
- 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
- Parish church
- OS grid reference
- NX 683 509
- Coordinates
- 54.8363, -4.05075
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkcudbright Parish Church is a T-plan Gothic church designed by William Burn between 1831 and 1838, with alterations made in 1886. The church features a three-stage tower with a broached spire that projects from the central gable end. It is constructed of yellow sandstone with red dressings. The tower has angle buttresses topped with octagonal finials, and a recessed door set under a pointed arch with moulded reveals. Above the door, there is a tall window with Y-tracery, along with triple belfry lights and lucarnes in the spire. The church also has simple lancet windows, which are tripled in the gables and on the south elevation. A low semi-circular parish room projects from the south side.
Inside, the church has a galleried interior with plaster ribs and a two-tier panelled pulpit flanked by an organ. There is one stained glass window in the central light of the south transept, created by William Meikle in memory of Rev. A C Campbell, and it is dated 1913.
Local climate
Kirkcudbright Parish Church, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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