Crichton Church Of Scotland, Ayr Road, Cumnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1977. Church.
Crichton Church Of Scotland, Ayr Road, Cumnock
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-railing-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1977
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 568 200
- Coordinates
- 55.45302, -4.2658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Crichton Church of Scotland, located on Ayr Road in Cumnock, was designed by D Menzies from Edinburgh and built between 1897 and 1899. The church features a curvilinear Gothic style, constructed from red snecked rubble with a slated roof. The broad south gable front includes a doorway with three orders of granite shafts, a pair of two-light windows, and a rose window above. To the west, there is a low gabled tower, while the tall four-stage tower has twin belfry windows and a stone spire that rises 140 feet, adorned with tall lucarnes and flanked by octagonal pinnacles on the east side. The body of the church has gabled flanks with three-light windows and transcepts with four lights, as well as a canted organ chamber apse. Inside, the church features a pitch pine roof that is open to collar beams, and there is a gallery at the south end over the entrance vestibule.
Local climate
Crichton Church Of Scotland, Ayr Road, Cumnock 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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