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Latitude: 55.0711 / 55°4'16"N
Longitude: -3.6134 / 3°36'48"W
OS Eastings: 297074
OS Northings: 576373
OS Grid: NX970763
Mapcode National: GBR 396S.HY
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.GSKS
Plus Code: 9C7R39CP+CJ
Entry Name: St George's Church, George Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: George Street, St George's Church (Church of Scotland)
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362739
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26206
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, George Street, St George's Church
ID on this website: 200362739
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
J Halliday of Dumfries, 1892-3, refronting and re-modelling
1843-4 Free Church. Italian Renaissance; late Georgian
church officer's flat to left (NE) over off-centre wide
pend. Red ashlar, rusticated at base; slate roofs. CHURCH:
5 bays articulated by engaged square doric columns on
rusticated piers and with urn finials over parapet; tall
windows with stilted round arches and round-arched lights;
wide doorway left (modern doors) with fanlight. Dentilled
cornice. Full-height advanced bay on SW flank accommodates
pulpit; low vestry adjoins with door to street.
Interior: also by Halliday; 2 tiers Corinthian columns support
gallery and roof; pilastered and columned round-arched pulpit
recess (modern pulpit); modillion cornice; coffered ceiling;
gallery to 3 sides.
Church officer's flat: (door in pend) 2 1st floor windows,
sashes, with 12-pane glazing pattern; band courses; cornice;
mullioned dormer.
Group with 9-15 Irving Street (Item 182) and Congregational
Church (Item 181). Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Foundation stone laid 26.8.1843; opened 14.4.1844; re-opened
10.12.1893.
1850 lay-out shown on 1st ed. O.S. 1:1056 scale.
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