Drumclog Memorial Kirk, Drumclog is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1979. Church.

Drumclog Memorial Kirk, Drumclog

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 February 1979
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 640 388
Coordinates
55.62454, -4.16106
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Drumclog Memorial Kirk, designed by architect J. MacLellan Fairley, was built in 1912. The church has a roughly cruciform plan with a tower located near the west corner. It is constructed of snecked bullfaced rubble, featuring polished ashlar dressings. The entrance is situated at the base of the tower, recessed under a moulded round arch with splayed reveals.

The prominent square-plan tower has squat diagonal buttresses that are chamfered in the upper part to create an octagonal base for the cupola. Each face of the tower has a louvred oculus, and some openings feature S-tracery. Squat pinnacles are positioned over the angles of the tower. The church also has an unusual three-stage copper cupola with a bell-cast cap and a weather vane.

The body of the church includes double aisles on the north-west elevation and a single aisle on the south-east elevation. The south-west gable is buttressed and features a Y-traceried window. All gables are crowstepped, and there are four swept-roofed windows on the south-east that break the eaves line. The roof is slate, and the church contains painted and leaded glass panels created by C. E. Stewart FRSA and JT&CE Stewart.

Local climate

Drumclog Memorial Kirk, Drumclog sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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