St Mary's 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. Church.
St Mary's Church, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- dusk-minaret-rye
- 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
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 686 511
- Coordinates
- 54.83789, -4.04732
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Church, located on St Mary Street in Kirkcudbright, was built between 1872 and 1874 and is designed in the early decorated Gothic style. The church features a nave with a four-stage tower and a broached spire on the right, along with a gabled porch on the left. At the east end, there are two projecting transepts. The structure is made of snecked, squared granite with polished sandstone dressings.
The west front has a central door with pointed-arched reveals, flanked by two side lights that are linked under a continuous hoodmould. Above the door, there is a four-light window with reticulated tracery. The tower also has a door similar to that of the gabled porch. The tower is supported by angle buttresses topped with pinnacles, and it features louvered belfry openings in the fourth stage. The spire has four lucarnes at its base and four smaller ones higher up.
The nave consists of three buttressed bays, each with paired lights below and triangular lights leading to the gallery, all adorned with foliate label stops. The final bay includes projecting aisles, and the church is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
St Mary's 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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