Church Of Scotland, Church Street, Port William is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Church.

Church Of Scotland, Church Street, Port William

WRENN ID
muted-footing-auburn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NX 338 439
Coordinates
54.7629, -4.58344
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Church of Scotland in Port William was built in 1862, with a vestry and session-house added by Richard Park in 1892. It features a rectangular plan and is constructed of rubble with dressed granite quoins and rybated margins. The church has projecting granite cills and tall pointed-arched windows, which originally had Y-traceried small-pane clear glazing, although they were boarded up in 1993. The roof is covered with small grey slates, slightly graded towards the vestry, and has red sandstone ridging.

On the north elevation facing Church Street, the church has a three-bay design. The central pointed-arched doorway features a two-leaf panelled door and a Y-traceried fanlight, with pointed-arched windows in the outer bays. The gablehead has pointed-arched openings that are partly boarded and louvred at the apex, topped by an iron birdcage bellcote that holds a small bell and has pointed-arched openings beneath a pyramidal roof.

The east and west elevations also have a three-bay layout with regular fenestration. The south elevation includes a gabled vestry that nearly spans the full width of the elevation, with a door to the left and a window to the right on the west side, and a window at the center on the east side. There are two small lean-to additions on the left and center of the south side, along with a granite-dressed gablehead stack that has a red sandstone cope.

The interior was not seen in 1993. The boundary walls are made of rubble and are coped with rubble as well. There is a two-leaf cast-iron fleur-de-lis gate to the north.

Local climate

Church Of Scotland, Church Street, Port William sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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