St Mungo Parish Church, Kettleholm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Mungo Parish Church, Kettleholm
- WRENN ID
- lesser-oriel-hawk
- 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
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Mungo Parish Church, Kettleholm, DG11 1BU
- OS grid reference
- NY 143 770
- Coordinates
- 55.08064, -3.34341
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mungo Parish Church in Kettleholm, designed by architect David Bryce, was built between 1874 and 1877. This rectangular-plan, five-bay Gothic church features a castellated three-storey square tower at the northeast corner. The exterior is constructed from coursed bull-faced ashlar with polished dressings and includes stepped buttresses, with pinnacled diagonal buttresses on the body of the church. The church has mostly pointed hood-moulded openings, some adorned with cusped tracery, and a wheel window in each main gable, topped with crenellated parapets.
The tower has a two-storey engaged stair turret and angle buttresses, with a louvred belfry opening above. It is capped with a broached cap house featuring a facetted stone roof, dummy machicolations, and spouts. There is a gabled porch centrally located on the west wall of the church and at the west end of the south wall, with the former having pinnacled diagonal buttresses.
Inside, the church features an oak pulpit with linen-fold panels and columned angles, with an organ located at the rear (east) by Abbot and Smith of Leeds. The interior also boasts an open-timbered roof with cusped framing and a fine bronze World War I memorial in the vestibule, created by F M Taubman of London in 1922.
Local climate
St Mungo Parish Church, Kettleholm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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