St Machute's Church, Churchyard, Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church.

St Machute's Church, Churchyard, Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown

WRENN ID
waiting-newel-violet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NX 435 555
Coordinates
54.8699, -4.43951
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Machute's Church is a ruin of a former parish church built in 1730 on the site of the earlier St Machute's Church, which was largely rebuilt in 1770. The east gable and south wall of the church still stand, although they are covered with ivy. Some fragments of the earlier structure are reported to survive at the southeast angle.

Local climate

St Machute's Church, Churchyard, Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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