Cairns Church, Cairns Drive, Milngavie is a Grade B listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1976. Church.
Cairns Church, Cairns Drive, Milngavie
- WRENN ID
- stranded-loggia-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1976
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 556 747
- Coordinates
- 55.94443, -4.3136
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cairns Church is an impressive sandstone building constructed in 1902, located on elevated ground to the north of Milngavie. It features a distinctive two-tone roof color scheme, with the spire finished in red tile and the remainder of the roof covered in grey-green slate. The architect responsible for this design is John Bennie Wilson.
Local climate
Cairns Church, Cairns Drive, Milngavie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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 0.2°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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