Erskine Church, Townhead, Langholm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Erskine Church, Townhead, Langholm
- WRENN ID
- floating-keep-spring
- 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
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Erskine Church, Townhead, Langholm, DG13 0JH
- OS grid reference
- NY 363 846
- Coordinates
- 55.15236, -2.99999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Erskine Church, located in Townhead, Langholm, is a Gothic church designed by architect R Baldie of Glasgow and dated 1867. The building features a square tower topped with a broach spire, constructed from coursed stugged ashlar with polished dressings, buttresses, strings, and hood-moulds. The main gabled elevation faces High Street and has a rectangular plan.
The nave includes an arcaded triple doorway flanked by columns, with deeply recessed doors that have cusped heads. Above the doorway is a tall window adorned with cusped tracery. The aisles are shallowly recessed, with the left (north) aisle designed as the bottom stage of the tower. The second stage of the tower is unusually tall, featuring an elongated 2-light window with a rose window above. The stone spire is lucarned, and the skews are finished with gableted skewputts, while the roof is continuously slated. The flanks of the building have pointed lights.
Local climate
Erskine Church, Townhead, Langholm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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