Dundrennan Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Church.
Dundrennan Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- odd-brick-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 749 477
- Coordinates
- 54.80887, -3.94795
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dundrennan Parish Church is a hall church built in 1865, designed by architect Mr. Corson from Manchester and constructed by John Murdoch of Castle Douglas. The church features a prominent gable facing the street and a Germanic-style tower with a saddle roof located to the southeast. It has a five-bay nave that is buttressed and includes lancet and roundel windows with simple lights. The exterior is made of rockfaced coursed masonry, accented with polished sandstone margins, bands, and quoins.
The main elevation on the south side showcases a wide, steep gable with a large plate traceried rose window. The tower is buttressed and consists of four stages. At the ground level, there is a round-arched hood and a moulded doorway, which is dated 1865 and features a tympanum. Above this doorway, there is a set-off between finials attached to the buttresses. The entrance has a square-headed double-leaf door. The third stage of the tower includes a clock face, while the fourth stage has louvred openings with rounded heads and a circle in the spandrel. The roof is steeply pitched and features crowstep gables.
Local climate
Dundrennan Parish Church 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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