Monuments in Old Parish Church, High Street, Renfrew is a Grade A listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Monument.
Monuments in Old Parish Church, High Street, Renfrew
- WRENN ID
- hidden-barrel-sienna
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 507 675
- Coordinates
- 55.8779, -4.38651
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Parish Church in High Street, Renfrew, features notable monuments. The monument of John Ross includes an arched recess with recumbent effigies of a knight and his spouse, set on a sculptured plinth, dating from the 14th century. Additionally, there is an altar-tomb attributed to John Motherwell, which is plain and dates from the 15th century.
Local climate
Monuments in Old Parish Church, High Street, Renfrew sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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