St Josephs Roman Catholic Church, Hill Street, Creetown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 January 1979. 2 related planning applications.
St Josephs Roman Catholic Church, Hill Street, Creetown
- WRENN ID
- odd-lintel-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 476 588
- Coordinates
- 54.90148, -4.37781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is a simple hall-type Free Church built in 1858-59, designed by the joiner-architect Peter McKie, who this is his only known work. The building was later used as a Roman Catholic Church and school, and a lower addition was constructed on the east gable in 1876. It closed in 1994 and is now used as a practice hall for Creetown Silver Band.
The church is built of rubble with granite ashlar margins and angle buttresses, rising to granite pinnacles. The west gable has a shallow, advanced central bay with granite quoins, featuring two lancet windows in each outer bay. The central doorway has double-leaf doors, with a blind lancet above. Three lancet windows light the nave. All windows have bold keystones and contain sash and case windows with 21-pane glazing. The roof is slate, with end skews and a cross finial to the west. A lower, single-story hall, featuring three brick-margined basket-arch casement windows, is attached to the south. A tall, octagonal stack rises from the hall’s southern end. The east gable arch is blind.
Local climate
St Josephs Roman Catholic Church, Hill Street, Creetown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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