Troqueer Parish Church, Troqueer Road, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Church.
Troqueer Parish Church, Troqueer Road, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- waning-screen-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 750
- Coordinates
- 55.05952, -3.60732
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Troqueer Parish Church, located on Troqueer Road in Dumfries, is a rectangular-plan church built in 1771 by Andrew Crosbie and later remodeled by James Barbour. The church features heavy Gothic detailing, including hood-moulded Tudor-arched tall windows with traceried panels, a parapet, and pinnacles over the angles. A corbelled large birdcage belfry sits over a buttress on the east gable, while the shallow south jamb has porches in the re-entrant angles behind lean-to timbered canopies. The jamb is twin-gabled and includes two large windows, and the north wall has three bays. The church is constructed of red ashlar and has slate roofs with red ridging tiles and axial ventilators. A low vestry was added to the south in 1934, which is dated.
Inside, mainly designed by Barbour, there is a horseshoe gallery with a cusped-panelled front supported by cast-iron columns. The jamb is screened by a Tudor-arched two-bay arcade, with a 20th-century pulpit and organ case at the foot. The church features an open timbered roof and two leaded windows, possibly from around 1887.
The churchyard includes a main gate at the west end of the north wall, next to a small gabled session house, which has a blank wall facing the street. Nearby is the Kirkpatrick mausoleum, made of bull-faced red ashlar with a gabled stone-slab roof. The churchyard contains many notable headstones and monuments, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, and is enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls.
Local climate
Troqueer Parish Church, Troqueer Road, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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