Latitude: 54.9776 / 54°58'39"N
Longitude: -3.6184 / 3°37'6"W
OS Eastings: 296513
OS Northings: 565971
OS Grid: NX965659
Mapcode National: GBR 3B5W.FG
Mapcode Global: WH5X3.D45Y
Plus Code: 9C6RX9HJ+2J
Entry Name: New Abbey Parish Church, Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey
Listing Name: New Abbey Village New Abbey Parish Church
Listing Date: 4 November 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351220
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17324
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: New Abbey, Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey Parish Church
ID on this website: 200351220
Location: New Abbey
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Abbey
Parish: New Abbey
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Church building
James Barbour of Dumfries, architect. Built 1876-7. T-plan
Gothic church with gabled belfry raised high above porch in
south east re-entrant angle. Squared and snecked white
granite blocks with red sandstone ashlar dressings and
bull-faced quoins; some single angle buttresses.
Geometric-traceried, pointed and hood-moulded windows, gabled
main porch on east side of nave, pointed doorway in splayed
reveals, hood-mould with dog-tooth ornament. Belfry,
curiously 2-dimensional, with traceried 2-light opening on
buttressed tall shaft.
Continuous string stepped to link cills and carried as
hood-mould over south-facing doors. Blocked eaves;
saw-toothed skews; cross finial over either main gable; slate
roof. Modern hall added to west is excluded from listing.
Interior: elaborate roof timbers; low octagonal pulpit,
leaded south window inserted after 1914.
Ecclesiastical Building in use as such.
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