Old Parish Church, Perceton, Irvine is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.

Old Parish Church, Perceton, Irvine

WRENN ID
roaming-buttress-sepia
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
OS grid reference
NS 351 405
Coordinates
55.63079, -4.6207
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The remains of a pre-Reformation church at Perceton, Irvine, now serve as a family burial ground. It consists of a roofless, rectangular stone enclosure with a gabled north aisle. The site is known as The Vault, Perceton, and is mentioned in the 3rd Statistical Account (page 290) and the New Statistical Account, Volume V (page 524).

Local climate

Old Parish Church, Perceton, Irvine sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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