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Johnstone United Presbyterian Church, Hoddom Road, Ecclefechan

A Category B Listed Building in Annandale North, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0588 / 55°3'31"N

Longitude: -3.2656 / 3°15'56"W

OS Eastings: 319255

OS Northings: 574545

OS Grid: NY192745

Mapcode National: GBR 59MY.SC

Mapcode Global: WH6Y0.T33P

Plus Code: 9C7R3P5M+GP

Entry Name: Johnstone United Presbyterian Church, Hoddom Road, Ecclefechan

Listing Name: Ecclefechan Village, Johnstone Church, Hall, Gatepiers and Railings

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342449

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10052

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Ecclefechan, Hoddom Road, Johnstone United Presbyterian Church

ID on this website: 200342449

Location: Hoddom

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale North

Parish: Hoddom

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

Dated 1865. T-plan church with simplified gothic detailing,
3-stage gabled square tower on nave N flank, transversely
set hall and church officer's flat abuts E gable. Stugged
red ashlar with polished dressings, tall narrow lights with
elongated cusped heads mostly hood-moulded.
TOWER: stairs within tall 1st stage outwardly expressed by
parallel diagonal courses and stepped window levels; middle
stage designed for clock faces; top stage with louvred
openings in gables or gabled dormer heads.
Continuous string raised as hood-mould over main door on W
gable on body of church and blind flanking quatrefoils.
Gabletted saw-toothed skews; slate roofs.
Hall/flat facing door at ground shouldered-headed lights
above.
INTERIOR: 3 linked galleries on cast-iron columns and with
panelled fronts; pulpit at E recessed behind large archway
and with good decorative cast-iron balconied front with
gothic details; "altar rail" also with good cast-iron work.
Enclosed by cast-iron gates and railings, gabletted square
red ashlar piers.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Built as UP church; now serves as Hoddom parish church

following destruction by fire of old parish church in 1975.

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