Tundergarth Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Tundergarth Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- vacant-loggia-elm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NY 175 807
- Coordinates
- 55.11459, -3.29488
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tundergarth Parish Church consists of a 1900 parish church designed by James Barbour and the roofless remains of an older church from 1770.
The parish church features a Gothic style with a rectangular plan, comprising three bays and a square tower at the southwest corner. There is a gabled organ chamber on the shallow east side. The church is constructed of roughly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, while the tower and south gable are harled.
The tower includes a door in the re-entrant angle and a west-facing window that illuminates the vestry at a lower level. Each face of the upper level has a louvred and traceried opening, topped with a simple parapet and a birdcage belfry over one corner.
The body of the church has a gabled timber canopy above paired doors at the north end of the west wall. It features elementary perpendicular tracery, a jamb with a rose window, and a single window on each gable, with a string course at cill level. The roof is slated with saw-toothed skews and projecting eaves.
Inside, there is an octagonal pulpit with a panelled front and decorative canopy, along with a carved, open timbered roof supported by shaped corbels. The leaded windows in both gables and on the east wall include two by Swaine Bourne & Son from Birmingham and London, which are signed.
The churchyard is enclosed by walls built of rubble with ashlar coping. It features two polished ashlar gatepiers with wrought-iron gates, along with an earlier gateway to the west with lattice work. The churchyard contains several notable stone monuments from the 17th to 19th centuries and a rubble-built shed, possibly a former watch house.
The old parish church, which was abandoned in 1900, has a T-plan with a four-bay south elevation and a central door on each gable. It is also built of rubble with ashlar margins but is now heavily overgrown. A Gothic monument from around 1907, featuring a canopied design in red ashlar with a moulded arch, cusping, and an ogee head, marks the site of the former pulpit.
Local climate
Tundergarth 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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