Latitude: 55.0705 / 55°4'13"N
Longitude: -3.6126 / 3°36'45"W
OS Eastings: 297122
OS Northings: 576298
OS Grid: NX971762
Mapcode National: GBR 396T.N5
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.GTX9
Plus Code: 9C7R39CP+5W
Entry Name: St Bride's Anglican Church (former Greyfriars' Church), Church Crescent, Dumfries
Listing Name: St Bride's Anglican Church (former Greyfriars' Church), Church Crescent, Dumfries
Listing Date: 11 July 1961
Last Amended: 9 December 2020
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362633
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26126
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Greyfriars Church, Dumfries
Greyfriars Kirk
Greyfriars Church
Dumfries, Church Crescent, Greyfriars Church
ID on this website: 200362633
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Tower: double doorway with trumeau, figure in carved tympanum, ogee hood-mould rising into blank arcading; belfry stage with three traceried lights within overarch, lucarned stone broach spire. Curved, buttressed and pinnacled stair turrets flank tower angles, tall crocketted pinnacles at junction of main roof. Steep-pitched canted gables in re-entrant angles with traceried ground floor windows; central door in east and west gables. Slated principal and subordinate roofs, pavilion-roofed bays to east and to west with iron brattishing. Partly enclosed by red ashlar walls with iron railings.
Interior: three galleries, supported on clustered cast-iron columns; open timbered roof on stone corbels (some sculptured) and with stencilled ornament; tiered panelled reredos; leaded windows - artists include, Powell brothers, Leeds, circa 1882, James Ballantine & Son, Camm brothers, 1879, L C Levetts, 1970.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. On site of James Smith and Alexander MacGill's 1724 New Church, itself built on site of Dumfries castle. Spire height given as 164' and as 180' in references.
Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2020. Previously listed as 'Church Crescent, Greyfriars' Church'.
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