St Sophia Episcopal Church, Bell's Wynd, Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. House, museum. 1 related planning application.

St Sophia Episcopal Church, Bell's Wynd, Douglas

WRENN ID
spare-plaster-flax
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
House, museum
Address
St Sophia Episcopal Church, Bell's Wynd, Douglas, ML11 0QH
OS grid reference
NS 835 309
Coordinates
55.55838, -3.84771
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Sophia Episcopal Church, located on Bell's Wynd in Douglas, dates back to 1706. Originally a 2-storey, 4-bay rubble-built house, it features chamfered reveals. The interior walls have been removed and the space converted into a church. The entrance is on the east wall, which has a dated lintel with a Latin inscription beneath a square panel that includes a crown. A door that once faced Bell's Wynd has been changed into a window. The building has crowstepped gables and ball finials. There is a later chancel extension on the south side, as well as a flat-roofed modern extension at the southeast corner. The roof is made of slate.

Local climate

St Sophia Episcopal Church, Bell's Wynd, 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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