Skeoch Hill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Skeoch Hill
- WRENN ID
- pale-wicket-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 859 790
- Coordinates
- 55.0927, -3.78919
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Erected in 1870, Skeoch Hill monument commemorates a conventicle, a secret religious gathering. The monument is an obelisk raised on a battered square base, all supported by a stepped plinth and capped with a Communion cup. Constructed from granite, it bears an inscription detailing how, in the summer of 1678, a large number of Covenanters met on the site to worship God. It is recorded that approximately 3000 communicants celebrated the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and adjacent stones were used as the communion table. Accounts of the monument and its inscription, including a photograph, have been recorded in local guides. Details about the monument’s construction and its location appeared in a historical survey of Galloway in 1878.
Local climate
Skeoch Hill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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