St George's Church, George Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Church. 1 related planning application.

St George's Church, George Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
twelfth-garret-wax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1981
Type
Church
Address
St George's Church, George Street, Dumfries, DG1 1EJ
OS grid reference
NX 970 763
Coordinates
55.07112, -3.61342
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St George's Church, located on George Street in Dumfries, was designed by J Halliday of Dumfries and built between 1892 and 1893, following a refronting and remodelling of the original Free Church from 1843-1844. The church features an Italian Renaissance style with late Georgian elements. To the northeast, there is a church officer's flat above an off-centre wide pend. The building is constructed of red ashlar stone, with a rusticated base and slate roofs.

The church has five bays that are defined by engaged square Doric columns on rusticated piers, topped with urn finials over the parapet. It includes tall windows with stilted round arches and round-arched lights. To the left, there is a wide doorway with modern doors and a fanlight. The structure is finished with a dentilled cornice. On the southwest flank, a full-height advanced bay accommodates the pulpit, with a low vestry adjoining it that has a door to the street.

Inside, which was also designed by Halliday, two tiers of Corinthian columns support the gallery and roof. The pulpit recess is pilastered and has a columned round-arched design, featuring a modern pulpit. The interior includes a modillion cornice and a coffered ceiling, with the gallery extending around three sides.

The church officer's flat, accessible through a door in the pend, has two first-floor windows with sashes and a 12-pane glazing pattern, along with band courses, a cornice, and a mullioned dormer.

Local climate

St George's Church, George Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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