Norrieston Parish Church And Churchyard, Main Street, Thornhill is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979.

Norrieston Parish Church And Churchyard, Main Street, Thornhill

WRENN ID
proud-cinder-heath
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
OS grid reference
NN 670 000
Coordinates
56.17448, -4.14355
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Norrieston Parish Church, built in 1878-9, is an Early English style building situated on Main Street, Thornhill. It comprises a nave with aisles and a south-east tower. The church is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins. The main entrance features a central pointed moulded head with flanking single lights. Above the door are three lancet windows with hood moulds, a raised central light, and an oculus in the gable, surmounted by a gable-head cross. The south-east tower is square, with two stages and a broached stone facetted spire banded at the top, topped with a weather vane. The first stage has single, hood moulded lancet windows and angle buttresses. The second stage is set back, with paired louvred openings to the south and single openings on the other faces. The six-bay nave has simple lancet windows, while the five-bay aisles also feature lancet windows. A door is located in the south-west nave return, above which is a quatrefoil. A single, lower, gabled bay projects to the north-west. The roof is slate, with louvred gablets. The church forms a group value with its churchyard. Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church provides further information on page 128.

Local climate

Norrieston Parish Church And Churchyard, Main Street, Thornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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