Vestry, Church Of Scotland, St John's Town Of Dalry is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Church.

Vestry, Church Of Scotland, St John's Town Of Dalry

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1990
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NX 618 811
Coordinates
55.10563, -4.16633
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The vestry of the Church of Scotland in St John's Town of Dalry was built in 1880. It is a single-storey building with a T-plan layout, featuring rubble walling and polished sandstone quoins and margins. The vestry has a three-bay, advanced gabled central porch topped with a squat pinnacle at the gable apex, which includes a pointed-arch, double-leaf door. On either side of the porch, there are single pointed-arch sash windows; the upper sashes have Y-glazing, while the lower sashes are two-pane. The roof is covered with slate and includes pinnacles at the gable apex, along with sandstone skews, skewputts, and a ridge.

Local climate

Vestry, Church Of Scotland, St John's Town Of Dalry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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