Gartocharn Church, Church Road, Gartocharn is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Church. 1 related planning application.
Gartocharn Church, Church Road, Gartocharn
- WRENN ID
- narrow-sandstone-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Gartocharn Church, Church Road, Gartocharn, G83 8NF
- OS grid reference
- NS 428 863
- Coordinates
- 56.04406, -4.52459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gartocharn Church is an earlier 20th-century Gothic Arts and Crafts hall church. The front elevation features stugged, squared, and snecked red sandstone, while the side elevations are cement-rendered. The church has cusped-headed leaded windows and a stepped pedimented gable, with projecting eaves and exposed rafters.
On the south entrance elevation, there is a stepped gabled bay at the center framed by buttresses. It has a boarded two-leaf door at the ground level, which is deeply chamfered, with small lights flanking it and a stepped hoodmould acting as a string course. Above this door is a large three-light window with a three-centre arch and cusped heads, along with a louvred pointed arch window in the gablehead. The hall body of the church has flanking blank bays and buttresses with projecting eaves.
The west elevations are cement-rendered with red sandstone. There is a wide sandstone buttress to the outer right and a small leaded window at the center. To the left is a four-bay nave with cusp-headed windows, and an advanced gabled transept to the outer left features a three-light window.
The east elevation mirrors the west elevation and includes a vestry. The church has multi-paned leaded windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and ashlar coping to the skews.
Surrounding the church is a low rubble boundary wall with boulder coping, along with pink sandstone gatepiers topped with depressed pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Gartocharn Church, Church Road, Gartocharn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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