St Kentigern's Church, Hope Street, Lanark is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Kentigern's Church, Hope Street, Lanark
- WRENN ID
- gentle-mantel-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Kentigern's Church, Hope Street, Lanark, ML11 7LZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 880 438
- Coordinates
- 55.67484, -3.78207
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Kentigern's Church, located on Hope Street in Lanark, was designed by W and J Hay in 1883 and features a Gothic architectural style that dates back to the 13th century. The church includes a nave and aisles, along with a square tower topped by a 138-foot spire situated at the south end. The exterior is constructed from snecked rubble with droved ashlar dressings and quoins.
The façade has two doors with a rose window above, all set under a central enriched pointed arch. Above this, there is a triple light window featuring geometric tracery, complete with a hoodmould and decorative label stops. A gable head cross adorns the structure. The east elevation of the north aisle includes a single lancet window.
The square tower is characterized by lancet windows, arrow slits, and a bar traceried louvred opening, which has splayed reveals leading to the belfry. A string course rises over the louvres to the pointed gable head at the base of the spire, which is decorated with gargoyles at the corners. The spire itself is broached and features buttressed pinnacles, with lucarnes on alternate faces of the facetted spire, topped off with a weathervane.
Local climate
St Kentigern's Church, Hope Street, Lanark sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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