Leswalt Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church.

Leswalt Parish Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NX 019 638
Coordinates
54.9303, -5.09231
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Leswalt Parish Church, built in 1828, is a T-plan church with a vestry attached to the east. The exterior is made of stone-cleaned rubble with raised margins. It features tall round-headed windows on the south elevation with small-pane glazing, while the other elevations have segmental-arched windows with 12-pane clear glazing. There are very small louvred oculi in the gableheads and diagonal buttresses. The doors are boarded, and the church has red sandstone coped skews and small purple slates.

On the north elevation, there are windows to the left and right, with a broad gabled jamb at the center. A forestair with steps angled up from the right leads to a double-leaf gallery door at the center, which accesses the laird's loft. The main entrance is to the left return of the forestair, with additional windows at gallery level. There is also a window at the center of the return elevations.

The west elevation features a double-leaf door at the center, with windows to the left and right at gallery level. At the apex, there is an ashlar birdcage bellcote topped with a ball finial and a bell.

The south elevation has four bays divided by buttresses, with a round-headed window in each bay. The east elevation includes windows to the left and right at gallery level, and a low gabled vestry attached at the center. This vestry has a door to the right and a window to the left on the north side, a window at the center on the south side, and a gablehead stack with an octagonal can to the east.

Inside, the church has painted plaster walls and boarded dadoes, with a coombed ceiling. There is a gallery to the north supported by two bell-capitaled columns and corbels. The pulpit is located to the south and features pointed-arched detailing, with steps leading from the left and a panelled screen behind it. The communion table dates from 1898, and there is a marble font from 1916. There are doors leading to the west and to the vestry on the east, a timber vestibule to the north, and timber pews. Painted panels from around 1898 are located on the west and east walls.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of rubble walls, with the eastern side being rubble coped and the western side cement coped. Square rubble gatepiers with ashlar block capping are located to the north, along with double-leaf iron gates.

Adjacent to the forestair on the north side is a monument from 1878 in memory of Rev Johnston, made of ashlar and featuring a gablet cap with angle colonnettes.

Local climate

Leswalt Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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