Mid Calder Parish Church, Main Street, Mid Calder is a Grade A listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Church.

Mid Calder Parish Church, Main Street, Mid Calder

WRENN ID
gaunt-gateway-smoke
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NT 073 673
Coordinates
55.8901, -3.48258
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mid Calder Parish Church, built between 1530 and 1550, is a Gothic structure made of ashlar with slated roofs. The chancel and apse feature a moulded eaves course and string course, along with massive buttresses and pointed traceried windows. There is a round arched moulded doorway. At the eastern end, the vestry has a lean-to roof and ornamented pinnacles, with a rectangular window above the Sandilands Burial vault below. The transepts and belfry were added to the western end in 1863 by architects Brown and Wardrop. The bell, originally dated 1663, was recast in 1876. Inside, the chancel and apse have been significantly altered with plaster vaults, and there is a carved wooden pew-back dated 1595.

Local climate

Mid Calder Parish Church, Main Street, Mid Calder sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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