St James Church (United Presbyterian), Duchal Road, Kilmacolm is a Grade A listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Church.

St James Church (United Presbyterian), Duchal Road, Kilmacolm

WRENN ID
inner-shingle-wagtail
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 June 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 358 697
Coordinates
55.89294, -4.62695
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St James Church, located on Duchal Road in Kilmacolm, is a Gothic Revival building constructed around 1902, designed by architect William Leiper. It is made of stone and features a slated roof. The church includes a tower with a stair turret and is partially built with ashlar stone.

Local climate

St James Church (United Presbyterian), Duchal Road, Kilmacolm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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