Abercorn Church And Anglian Monastery is a Grade A listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Church.
Abercorn Church And Anglian Monastery
- WRENN ID
- carved-pilaster-summer
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NT 081 790
- Coordinates
- 55.99599, -3.4743
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Abercorn Church and Anglian Monastery is a Romanesque building from the later 11th century that has undergone significant alterations. Originally, it featured an aisleless nave and chancel, constructed from coursed rubble. The church has a skew-gabled roof with a belfry for the sanctus bell located at the eastern end of the nave, and it has slated roofs. There is a round-headed south doorway in the nave, which is now built up.
Notable additions include a west facade from 1893, which features a wheel window and a round-arched doorway. The south side includes the Philipstoun Burial Enclosure from 1723, the Binns Aisle from 1618 containing mural monuments from 1633 and 1642, and the Duddingstone Burial Aisle from 1603 and 1612. The north side is marked by the Hopetoun Aisle, designed by Sir William Bruce between 1707 and 1708, which includes a burial vault and retiring rooms. The nave aisle, added in 1893, also features a belfry.
The interior was remodeled in 1893, except for the Hopetoun Loft at the eastern end of the chancel, which was designed by Bruce in 1707-8, with carving by William Eizat and a heraldic ceiling by Richard Waitt. The loft communicates with the Hopetoun Aisle.
Local climate
Abercorn Church And Anglian Monastery receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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