Hall, St Augustine's Episcopal Church, High Street, Dumbarton is a Grade A listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1980. Church.

Hall, St Augustine's Episcopal Church, High Street, Dumbarton

WRENN ID
mired-tin-dew
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1980
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 397 752
Coordinates
55.94367, -4.56823
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Augustine's Episcopal Church in Dumbarton is a Gothic church designed by architect Robert Rowand Anderson of Edinburgh, dated 1873. It features an 8-bay, aisled structure with a principal gabled elevation facing High Street. The exterior is made of polished ashlar, with the remainder finished in stugged stone and polished dressings. The central entrance is a recessed door with splayed reveals, topped by a moulded pointed arch. Above this is a large window with geometrical tracery and circular panels in the spandrels, along with a hood-moulded vesica in the gable-head. The church has angle buttresses, saw-tooth skews, and a cross finial. To the left, there is a low square extension with a plate-traceried window, and similar windows and doors are located in the re-entrant angle. The aisle window to the right features geometrical tracery and a hood-mould. The clerestory windows have pointed heads and are paired over the nave.

Inside, the planned decoration has been gradually completed. The chancel, nave, and north aisle are arcaded, with the aisle supported by circular and octagonal columns. The chancel arch is set on clustered columns. A delicate and elaborately carved chancel screen features cusping and traceries, topped with a central gable. The altar rails are adorned with carved angels on the gate posts. The altar and reredos were dedicated in 1893, and there is a war memorial by R M MacNaught of Denny & Blain, dating from around 1923. The church contains some leaded glass windows, including one in the eastern aisle by W Gibbs, which is in poor repair, and another by Stephen Adam from 1897 located in the western aisle at the south end. The roof is timbered.

Local climate

Hall, St Augustine's Episcopal Church, High Street, Dumbarton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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