United Free Church And Churchyard, Church Street, Lochwinnoch is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Church. 2 related planning applications.
United Free Church And Churchyard, Church Street, Lochwinnoch
- WRENN ID
- quiet-tracery-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 354 586
- Coordinates
- 55.79319, -4.62666
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The United Free Church, built in 1792, features an octagonal plan with a three-stage square tower added in 1815. The church is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, particularly on the northeast face of the tower. The tower includes a door with a round-headed fanlight, a band course, and a moulded string course at the impost level, along with a scrolled wrought-iron lamp bracket above. There is a louvered opening under a pointed arch with a hood-moulding on the second stage, which also has a continuous cill band. The third stage has chamfered angles and hood-moulded, pointed-headed blind openings with a cill band. Above, there is a corbelled and crenellated parapet, with pinnacles at the corners.
The body of the church had its windows altered in 1823, with blocked pointed-headed openings at ground level beneath pointed-headed gallery windows on the south and east faces, and a single tall pointed-headed window on each of the other faces. The church features an eaves band and a faceted slate roof. To the southwest, there is a low session house and hall from the later 19th century, which includes pointed windows.
Inside, the church was mostly re-fitted in the later 19th century. The gallery has a panelled front with a clock and is accessed by two flights of steps with decorative cast-iron balusters. The pulpit is also reached by two flights of steps. The churchyard is enclosed by a rubble wall, featuring round gatepiers topped with flat conical caps.
Local climate
United Free Church And Churchyard, Church Street, Lochwinnoch 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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