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Tinwald Parish Church

A Category B Listed Building in Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.119 / 55°7'8"N

Longitude: -3.5656 / 3°33'55"W

OS Eastings: 300249

OS Northings: 581636

OS Grid: NY002816

Mapcode National: GBR 39J7.VS

Mapcode Global: WH5WC.6LCJ

Plus Code: 9C7R4C9M+JQ

Entry Name: Tinwald Parish Church

Listing Name: Tinwald Parish Church, and Churchyard

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351128

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17241

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351128

Location: Tinwald

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Lochar

Parish: Tinwald

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

Dated 1765 on east gable. Plain, rectangular-plan, 4-bay
church, alterations and additions James Barbour of Dumfries,
1898-9, with gabled porch added to east gable, lean-to vestry
at west end of north wall, original door on wet gable now a
tall lancet, windows to bays now pointed-headed bipartites.
Squared red rubble, with ashlar dressings. 2 shouldered doors
to porch; bipartite to west wall of vestry; ball-finialed,
plain, birdcage bellcote over west gable (17th century Dutch
bell); ball finial over east gable; central axial ventilator;
main eaves cornice; wall-head stack above vestry; slate
roofs. Interior also by Barbour: hammer beam roof; pointed
alcoves on west gable flanking lancet 4 leaded windows by
Gordon Webster inserted between 1937-1978.
Irregular-plan churchyard is mostly enclosed by rubble-built
walls; square, red ashlar gatepiers at south west. Many
interesting 17-19th century stone monuments, Charteris
enclosure against north wall of church.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The RCAHM INVENTORY

1920 notes the monument to John Corbet, covenantor, and a

1618 carved stone in the Charteris enclosure. (no. 586)

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