Moat Park Church, Kirkstyle, Biggar is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Moat Park Church, Kirkstyle, Biggar

WRENN ID
stranded-garret-birch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 May 1980
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NT 039 378
Coordinates
55.62461, -3.52644
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Moat Park Church, located in Kirkstyle, Biggar, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and is dated 1865 at the bell tower. The church is built in a Romanesque style using squared snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof.

At the eastern end, there is a shallow narthex that includes four small pilastered round-headed windows adorned with dog tooth decoration. These windows are flanked by two round-headed doorways, which are supported by columns with carved capitals, and a large rose window is situated above. The church has a square bell tower topped with a pyramidal roof covered in fish scale slates.

The nave is buttressed and consists of five bays, with simple round-headed windows. The interior is plain, featuring a gallery at the eastern end. Additionally, there is a church hall located at the rear.

Local climate

Moat Park Church, Kirkstyle, Biggar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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