Old St Bride's Parish Church, Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Church.
Old St Bride's Parish Church, Douglas
- WRENN ID
- tilted-entrance-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 837 309
- Coordinates
- 55.55849, -3.84444
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old St Bride's Parish Church in Douglas was built in 1781. Originally designed in a rectangular plan, it was altered in the earlier 19th century and again in 1868 by architect Charles MacGibbon of Edinburgh, resulting in its current T-plan shape. The church features coursed squared and roughly-drove rubble with rusticated quoins, along with later additions of stugged ashlar and rubble.
The original structure comprised five bays, with round-headed windows at the lower level and square windows at the gallery level. A low two-bay porch projects southeast from the central bay, and the flanking windows have been altered to become single, tall, round-headed windows. All round-headed doors and windows are adorned with pilastered jambs and keystones.
Later modifications include rectangular gallery stair projections to the northeast and southwest, each featuring a round-headed door with a fanlight and a round-headed window on the outer face. There is an inscribed datestone above the northeast door and rusticated quoins. The church was extended in the earlier 19th century by two bays from the northwest wall, with a narrower single bay extension beyond that includes a door.
The building has an eaves course, cornice, and piended slate roofs. Inside, there is a galleried interior and some leaded glass panels.
Local climate
Old St Bride's Parish Church, Douglas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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