Savings Bank, 9 Church Crescent, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Bank.
Savings Bank, 9 Church Crescent, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-lancet-ash
- 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
- Bank
- Address
- Savings Bank, 9 Church Crescent, Dumfries, DG1 1DF
- OS grid reference
- NX 971 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07074, -3.6124
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Savings Bank at 9 Church Crescent in Dumfries was designed by J Gregan of Manchester in collaboration with Alexander Crombie of Dumfries in 1847. This two-storey building is in the Neo-Classical style. The ground floor features a rusticated finish with a decorative band course above, and the end bays are slightly advanced, each with a flat-arched doorway that has projecting voussoirs in the Vanbrughian style. The upper floor is framed by Roman Ionic columns and corniced windows that have balustraded aprons.
The central bay displays three arched windows on the ground floor, with a Venetian feature above that is flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Above this is a niche containing a painted stone statue of Rev Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, created by John Currie of Dumfries, with an inscription panel in the apron beneath it. The sidelights also feature balustraded aprons. The building has an entablature with a parapet that is raised at the center. The ground floor windows have margin-panes, while the upper windows are fitted with plate glass sashes.
Inside, the banking hall includes an Ionic columned screen.
Local climate
Savings Bank, 9 Church Crescent, 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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