St Fechan's Church, Ecclefechan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
St Fechan's Church, Ecclefechan
- WRENN ID
- hollow-mantel-rowan
- 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 192 745
- Coordinates
- 55.05843, -3.26617
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Fechan’s Church is situated within a quadrangular churchyard in Ecclefechan. The churchyard contains the burial place of Thomas Carlyle and Archibald Arnott, a physician to Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as the site of the now-demolished St Fechan’s Church. The churchyard is enclosed by walls constructed of rubble with ashlar coping, with a gate located at the north end of the west wall. A front wall remains from a former cottage, known as Harthop cottage. The churchyard contains primarily 17th and 19th century headstones, some featuring artisan sculpture. A cast-iron enclosure marks Carlyle's grave, while other graves are enclosed by good quality cast-iron railings. The statutory address is Ecclefechan Village, Johnstone Churchyard.
Local climate
St Fechan's Church, Ecclefechan 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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