Incuding Boundary Wall And Railings, Duntocher West United Free Church, Dumbarton Road, Duntocher is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 2008. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Incuding Boundary Wall And Railings, Duntocher West United Free Church, Dumbarton Road, Duntocher
- WRENN ID
- iron-turret-jay
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 2008
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Incuding Boundary Wall And Railings, Duntocher West United Free Church, Dumbarton Road, Duntocher, G81 6DS
- OS grid reference
- NS 489 726
- Coordinates
- 55.92319, -4.41876
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Duntocher West United Free Church, built in 1822, is a 2-storey, 3-bay, square-plan Classical church with a late 19th century gabled hall extension at the rear. The church features painted render with raised, moulded and tabbed margins, angle and eaves bands, and rubble on the hall. It has a base course and cornice, with a slightly advanced central bay on the entrance elevation (north) that includes a pilastered, corniced doorpiece with a 2-leaf, 10-panel timber door.
The windows predominantly have small square multi-pane coloured glazing, and the piended roof is covered with grey slates. The church also has cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the church retains a good, original, simple classical decorative scheme. The walls are white painted with timber panelling to the dado, and there is a timber floor. A horseshoe gallery features decorative plasterwork on the moulded balcony, supported by slender cast-iron columns with decorative capitals. The interior includes timber pews with distinctive curvilinear pew ends and curved pews in the gallery. There is a fine, large Baroque-style timber pulpit and chair, a boarded timber ceiling with linear moulding, and curved timber staircases leading to the gallery. The doors are 6-panel timber.
The boundary wall and railings surround the church to the north, east, and west. The low, coped, rubble boundary wall is topped with slim iron railings.
Local climate
Incuding Boundary Wall And Railings, Duntocher West United Free Church, Dumbarton Road, Duntocher 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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