Garvald Church And Churchyard is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Garvald Church And Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- bitter-column-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NY 041 903
- Coordinates
- 55.19764, -3.50772
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The site comprises a quadrangular churchyard containing the ruins of the former Garvald church and a number of 17th- to 19th-century stone monuments. The church, reputedly rebuilt in 1617, was of rectangular plan. The remaining walls stand only a few courses high and are constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The churchyard is enclosed by rubble-built walls with ashlar coping, and there is a gate at the east side. The church and some monuments are detailed in the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) inventory of 1920, reference numbers 355 and 355. Garvald Parish was suppressed in 1660.
Local climate
Garvald Church And Churchyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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