St John's Kirk is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971.
St John's Kirk
- WRENN ID
- ghost-timber-falcon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 984 359
- Coordinates
- 55.60634, -3.61369
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St John’s Kirk is a roofless, ruined church, now used as a burial ground. References to the kirk appear in Upper Ward of Lanark, Irving and Murray, volume 1, page 477.
Local climate
St John's Kirk sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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