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Latitude: 55.071 / 55°4'15"N
Longitude: -3.6124 / 3°36'44"W
OS Eastings: 297139
OS Northings: 576356
OS Grid: NX971763
Mapcode National: GBR 396T.Q0
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.HS1W
Plus Code: 9C7R39CQ+92
Entry Name: Congregational Church, Irving Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: Irving Street, Congregational Church and Hall
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362804
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26254
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, Irving Street, Congregational Church
ID on this website: 200362804
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Style of Walter Newall. Built 1835 as Congregational Church,
with tall narrow round-headed windows, pilastered narrow
outer pavilions; lower recessed bay left encloses stair;
2-storey 2-bay terraced house to right (NW) converted
probably 1862 to form halls and vestry. All polished red
ashlar; slated roofs. Church has 3-light inner and single
light outer windows, all multi-paned sashes, and
recessed in shallow rectangular panels; deep cill band;
arcaded corbel table carries main cornice; parapet; entrance
bay left has wide round-headed doorway, blind fanlight with
astragals cut in ashlar, round-headed bipartite over; wide
pilaster strip left with blind round-headed lights; cornice
to parapet. Church hall to right is plainer, round-headed door
left, architraved windows, cornice and parapet; end stack.
Interior: 1862; renovated and re-pewed 1880; some later
alterations; gallery at NE with panelled front. Organ by
John R Miller of Dundee, 1958.
Set behind modern iron railings.
B Group with Items 132 and 182. Ecclesiastical building in
use as such. Opened 6.9.1835.
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