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Latitude: 55.0595 / 55°3'34"N
Longitude: -3.6073 / 3°36'26"W
OS Eastings: 297434
OS Northings: 575074
OS Grid: NX974750
Mapcode National: GBR 397Y.T3
Mapcode Global: WH5WQ.K3G4
Plus Code: 9C7R395V+R3
Entry Name: Troqueer Parish Church, Troqueer Road, Dumfries
Listing Name: Troqueer Road, Troqueer Church, Churchyard and Session House
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362969
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26349
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, Troqueer Road, Troqueer Parish Church
ID on this website: 200362969
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Abbey
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Church building
1771 rectangular-plan church by Andrew Crosbie remodelled by
James Barbour with heavy Gothic detailing including
hood-moulded Tudor-arched tall windows with traceried panels,
parapet, pinnacles over angles, corbelled large birdcage
belfry over buttress on E gable, shallow S jamb with porches
in re-entrant angles behind lean-to timbered canopies. Jamb
is twin-gabled with 2 large windows; 3-bay N wall. Red
ashlar. Slate roofs with red ridging tiles and axial
ventilators. Low vestry added to S 1934 (dated).
Interior: (mainly by Barbour) horseshoe gallery with
cusped-panelled front on cast-iron columns; jamb screened by Tudor-arched 2-bay arcade, 20th century pulpit and organ case
at foot; open timbered roof; 2 (?circa 1887) leaded windows.
Churchyard with main gate at W end of N wall beside gabled
small session house, latter with blank wall to street;
Kirkpatrick mausoleum nearby bull-faced red ashlar, gabled
and with stone-slab roof. Many good headstones and monuments,
mainly 18th and 19th century. Ashlar-coped rubble-built
enclosure walls.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. First opened 7 November
1771.
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