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Methodist Church, 81, 83 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries

A Category A Listed Building in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0703 / 55°4'13"N

Longitude: -3.6135 / 3°36'48"W

OS Eastings: 297069

OS Northings: 576286

OS Grid: NX970762

Mapcode National: GBR 396T.H7

Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.GTJC

Plus Code: 9C7R39CP+4J

Entry Name: Methodist Church, 81, 83 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries

Listing Name: 83 Buccleuch Street, Former Methodist Church and Railings

Listing Date: 14 December 1979

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362593

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26102

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dumfries, 81, 83 Buccleuch Street, Methodist Church

ID on this website: 200362593

Location: Dumfries

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Dumfries

Electoral Ward: Nith

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

T F Hunt of London, 1817, James Thomson of Dumfries as
Interior: presumably 1848): unusual gallery, treated as
executant architect. Built as Episcopal church, with
giant tetrastyle Ionic portico to Buccleuch Street.
Painted ashlar. 2 storeys, rusticated at ground; single
bays flank portico; 3-bay elevation to Castle Street
altered 1848 with full-height 5-sided pilastered apse
central, with tall round-headed lights; flanking
round-headed bipartites at gallery level with consoled
cornices (perhaps altered 1848). Cornice; tall parapet,
balustraded over openings; concealed roof with
small-paned circular lantern. Some decorative cast-iron
railings survive.
entablature, and supported on cast-iron columns; ribbed
dome below lantern. Seating and pulpit now removed.

Statement of Interest

No longer (1986) in ecclesiastical use. A Group with 75-81

Buccleuch Street, Greyfriars Church and Castle Street and

George Street listings. Sketch by W C Aitken (copy in NMRS)

shows church before alterations, with recessed inner bay to

Castle Street, blank at lower level, gallery window

(?tripartite) with consoled cornice under arched head.

Re-opened 21.11.1848 following alterations.

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