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Latitude: 55.231 / 55°13'51"N
Longitude: -3.8116 / 3°48'41"W
OS Eastings: 284881
OS Northings: 594471
OS Grid: NX848944
Mapcode National: GBR 17TY.LN
Mapcode Global: WH5VN.FS57
Plus Code: 9C7R65JQ+99
Entry Name: Penpont Parish Church
Listing Name: Penpont Village Penpont Church and Churchyard
Listing Date: 26 June 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351158
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17267
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200351158
Location: Penpont
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Penpont
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Charles Howitt of Drumlanrig estate, architect. Built 1867. Cruciform-plan Gothic church, square tower with broach spire
linked to north east angle, entrance and ground. All built of
bull-faced pink ashlar with polished dressings, hood-moulds
and beak-head mouldings at eaves; stepped angle buttresses.
Tower: (stages undivided) north-facing door with moulded
reveals and arch; stair window above; louvered 3-light belfry
opening at upper level of each elevation, and clock to
elevations facing village; lucarnes at base of spire;
weathervane finial. Tall 3-light window with splayed cill
course, cross finial and shaped skews to each gable, and
central doorway, except at north. Shallow transepts; nave has
3 buttressed bays. Shallow vestry and organ outshots either
side of chancel. Slate roof.
Interior: simple wainscot panelling in chancel by P MacGregor
Chalmers, fine oak communion table with art nouveau ornament; open-timbered roof.
Churchyard: irregular-plan; earlier enclosure to east of
church (rubble-built ashlar-coped walls) extended to west
(? circa 1867) and enclosed by plain iron railings on low
wall, gate at north. Mostly 17th-19th century stone monuments
to east of church including Renaissance mural monument near
east gable.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Communion table possibly by J G Waddell.
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