Tongland 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.
Tongland Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- guardian-tracery-oak
- 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 697 539
- Coordinates
- 54.86302, -4.03017
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tongland Parish Church, dated 1813, is a rectangular neo-Gothic hall church featuring a square tower to the north and a later vestry or porch added to the south gable. The church is constructed of sandstone rubble with polished red sandstone margins and dressings, although all openings have been recently blocked with breeze-block.
The church has a 3-bay body that is buttressed, with Tudor-arch windows that have hood moulds. The roofs are covered with slate, and the sandstone skews add to the architectural detail. The tower is divided into three stages and is buttressed at the corners. It features pointed-arch openings, some of which are louvred on the third stage, and there are bipartite windows beneath square hood moulds. The tower is topped with a corbelled embattled parapet that has crocket pinnacles rising from the angle buttresses.
To the east gable, there is a single-storey porch from around 1900, which has a flat roof and an embattled parapet. The churchyard is surrounded by rubble walls and contains mainly 19th-century gravestones. Additionally, the churchyard includes the ruins of Tongland Abbey.
Local climate
Tongland Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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