Isle Parish Church, Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church. 1 related planning application.
Isle Parish Church, Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn
- WRENN ID
- steep-portal-river
- 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 478 363
- Coordinates
- 54.69955, -4.36267
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Isle Parish Church, built in 1844, was originally a United Free Church and is now part of the Church of Scotland. It is a simple rectangular hall church featuring twin gabled lower bays on the west side and a birdcage bellcote on the east gable. The exterior is made of painted rubble with raised painted margins.
The east gable has a gabled porch with a simple pointed-arch window, flanked by three lancet windows, all featuring small pane Y-tracery glazing. The west gable wall includes twin projecting gabled bays that serve as a vestry, each topped with finials at the gable apexes. The end skews are finished in ashlar, and there is an ashlar bell cloche on the east side that houses a bell, all under slate roofs. Surrounding the church is a low rubble wall that supports cast-iron railings, with gates located to the east.
Inside, the church has simple painted walls and a flat ceiling, with a boarded dado. The main body of the church is filled with pews and side aisles. Notable interior features include a dignified timber pulpit, lectern, communion table, and priest's chair.
Local climate
Isle Parish Church, Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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