Old Parish Church, Staplegordon is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Old Parish Church, Staplegordon
- WRENN ID
- endless-flue-raven
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NY 352 879
- Coordinates
- 55.18132, -3.01878
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The site comprises the churchyard of the former Old Parish Church in Staplegordon, enclosed by rubble-built walls with a gate at the south. The walls contain mostly 18th and 19th century headstones, many of which feature good artisan sculpture. A pinnacled Gothic Maxwell of Broomholm burial aisle was formerly located within the churchyard but has since been demolished. Staplegordon parish was united with Wauchope in 1703 to form the parish of Langholm. Further details, including illustrations, appear in Hyslop's Langholm as it Was, 1912.
Local climate
Old Parish Church, Staplegordon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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