Auchencairn Parish Church, Church Road, Auchencairn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.

Auchencairn Parish Church, Church Road, Auchencairn

WRENN ID
waiting-cupola-hazel
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
Address
Auchencairn Parish Church, Church Road, Auchencairn, DG7 1QS
OS grid reference
NX 799 512
Coordinates
54.8419, -3.87142
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Auchencairn Parish Church, built around 1858, is a small Neo-Gothic church featuring a steeply pitched gabled roof. The walls are made of squared coursed bull-faced rubble with polished window margins and dressings. The church has a rectangular shape with a chancel and buttresses at the corners and along the nave. It includes a 3-bay nave with a gabled porch on the northeast side, which has a pointed-arch doorway. The nave windows are single lancets with hood-moulds, while the north and south gables display geometric traceried windows. A bellcote is located on the north gable, and the sandstone skews are topped with cross-finials at the apexes of the gables. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with slate, and the porch features diamond tiles.

Local climate

Auchencairn Parish Church, Church Road, Auchencairn 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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