Middlebie Mission Church, Lauriesclose is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. Church.
Middlebie Mission Church, Lauriesclose
- WRENN ID
- mired-wall-quill
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NY 267 798
- Coordinates
- 55.10779, -3.15007
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Middlebie Mission Church, built between 1904 and 1905 by architects James Barbour and John MacLintock Bowie of Dumfries, is a small Gothic church designed in the Arts and Crafts style, now converted for domestic use. The building features snecked, bull-faced red ashlar stone and has a rectangular plan with a squat, two-storey square entrance tower at the north end of the east wall.
The tower includes battered angle buttresses, with similar single buttresses at the other angles. It has a recessed east-facing door, and a window above the door breaks through the eaves, topped with a gabled dormer head that has louvred slits on the sides. The tower is capped with a steep pyramidal slate roof that sweeps over the eaves. There is a two-bay aisle in the south re-entrant angle, with a roof that also sweeps over and a wallhead gable to the west. The plain, five-bay west wall features two narrow pointed arched windows in each gable, and the entire structure has a slate roof.
The interior has been altered. The church is set behind a coped, bull-faced ashlar wall that steps down the slope, featuring square piers and shaped wrought-iron railings. The gatepiers are topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Middlebie Mission Church, Lauriesclose sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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