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Latitude: 55.2438 / 55°14'37"N
Longitude: -3.7594 / 3°45'33"W
OS Eastings: 288235
OS Northings: 595813
OS Grid: NX882958
Mapcode National: GBR 275T.W1
Mapcode Global: WH5VP.7G1C
Plus Code: 9C7R66VR+G6
Entry Name: Morton Parish Church, Manse Road, Thornhill
Listing Name: Thornhill Village Morton Parish Church
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351255
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17357
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Thornhill, Manse Road, Morton Parish Church
ID on this website: 200351255
Location: Morton
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Morton
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
William Burn, Architect. Built 1841. Gothic church with
round-arched details, simple rectangular-plan, 4-stage square
tower at west; low vestry at north east angle by James
Barbour, 1904. Stugged pinkish coursers, polished dressings. Hood-moulded round-headed openings with moulded and splayed
reveals. Tower: lower stages off-set, stepped angle
buttresses continued as clasping pilaster strips, with
pinnacles above corbelled open parapet; west-facing door has
nook-shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded arch;
louvered bipartite each face of top stage, clock to 3 faces
of stage below. Body of church with 5 buttressed bays and
corbelled parapets; pinnacled angle buttress; 5 lights in
east gable, 2-bay vestry in similar style; porch alongside.
Slate roofs. Interior: ceiling barrel-vaulted, with ribs and
bosses; horseshoe gallery with panelled front on cast-iron
columns. Leaded windows on east gable, that to north by
Ballantine and Gardner, circa 1892, others circa 1883-circa
1903. Romanesque font 1887.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
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