Kirkgunzeon Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Kirkgunzeon Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- fading-loft-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 866 667
- Coordinates
- 54.98266, -3.7733
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkgunzeon Parish Church is a building of the 18th century, built in 1796 to the design of Robert Clark of Kirkgunzeon. It occupies the site of an earlier church. The church is constructed of painted rubble with dressed margins to the windows and long and short quoins. It comprises a four-bay nave, featuring round-arched windows with eight panes of glazing. Gabled porches are located at both the west and east gables. A birdcage bellcote, built from red sandstone and likely dating to the later 19th century, is situated on the west gable. The church is roofed with slate and has flat skews.
The interior was recast to a late 19th-century seating plan, incorporating a communion table and a plain oak font at the west end. An 18th-century pulpit remains, along with a bracketted plaster cornice.
The surrounding churchyard contains 18th and 19th-century tombstones, including a monument to the McWhire family (listed separately as LB9678).
The church is no longer in use as a place of worship, having ceased functioning around 2013. It is part of a group listing with the McWhire monument.
Local climate
Kirkgunzeon Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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