Abbey Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1988. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Abbey Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-rampart-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Abbey Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1EH
- OS grid reference
- NT 680 787
- Coordinates
- 56.00029, -2.5145
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Abbey Church of Scotland in Dunbar was designed by Thomas Hamilton from Edinburgh in 1850. It features a facade made of white Catcraig ashlar stone, with a body constructed from snecked rubble and a slate roof. The building has a symmetrical tripartite facade that includes a pointed arched doorway at the center, with three stepped lancets above it. To the left, there is a pinnacled turret topped with a weathervane, and to the right, a pinnacled buttress. The outer bays are accented by outer buttresses and blind arcading at the upper level. A string course runs around the building at the gallery level, and there is a tiled bellcote spirelet at the center of the ridge.
On the west and east faces, there are four lancets below and three above. The south elevation features a low projecting gabled block with a wallhead chimney and lancets below, along with two lancets in the aisles and a cusped circular window in the gable.
The property is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall topped with ashlar coping, and there are metal railings and lamp standards at the front.
Local climate
Abbey Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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