Description

Walter Newall, architect; 1814 porch and interior circa 1890,
style of James Barbour of Dumfries. T-plan neo-Gothic church
with square tower to E wall. Squared coursed rubble, polished
red sandstone margins.
2-bay nave with shallow projecting buttressed porch to S and
W gables. N gable with circa 1890 square gabled porch. Wide
4-centre arched windows with unusual 2-tiered tracery (an
early use of this motif) and hoodmoulds. Small-pane stack.
Tower in 3 stages with intermediate band courses. Single
lancets to 1st, bipartite with hoodmoulds to 2nd, louvred
openings to 3rd; cornice, embattled parapet with squat
pinnacles to angles.
Kneeler skewputts to gables with scroll skewputts. Stumps of
removed cross-finials remain. Slate roofs throughout.
To N gable square plan, single-storey later 19th-century
porch/vestry; rubble walling, embattled parapet.
To SE re-entrant angle good cast-iron spiral stair gives
access to narrow door at 2nd stage of tower.
INTERIOR: refitted circa 1890, timber lined open truss roof
also of 1890 date.
Rubble walled churchyard with mainly 19th century stones.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791218

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas