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Latitude: 54.9579 / 54°57'28"N
Longitude: -4.4853 / 4°29'6"W
OS Eastings: 240965
OS Northings: 565412
OS Grid: NX409654
Mapcode National: GBR 4G.YZHH
Mapcode Global: WH3TF.2NF1
Plus Code: 9C6QXG57+5V
Entry Name: Penninghame Parish Church, Church Street, Newton Stewart
Listing Name: Church Street, Penninghame Parish Church, St John's (Church_of Scotland), Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384074
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38663
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Newton Stewart, Church Street, Penninghame Parish Church
ID on this website: 200384074
Location: Newton Stewart
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Newton Stewart
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Church building
William Burn, architect. 1838. Cruciform gothic church with tower to S gable. Bull-faced walling with contrasting polished cream sandstone margins and angles and buttresses.
2-bay nave with projecting single bay transepts, single bay chancel. Pointed-arch portals with nook shafts to tower, basket-arched to transepts. All double-leaf panelled doors. All windows pointed-arch with hoodmoulds, tripartite to transepts, otherwise single light with iron-framed hexagonal-paned glazing. Tower stepped in 3 stages; portal to ground, louvered traceried lights to 1st, clock face to 2nd with parapet over, pinnacles rise from buttresses, tall facetted ashlar spire rises from parapet with 2 levels of lucarnes.
Skews to gable ends, slate roofs. To rear, mission hall added in 1881, in plainer gothic style, same materials as church and with flat-roofed extension. 3 light windows to gable ends.
Interior: very fine and well preserved interior, galleries to 3 sides supported on cast-iron columns. Carved pulpit, communion table and reredos all original. Open timber trussed ceiling.
Low coped polished granite boundary walls cast-iron railings and gates. Pair of square polished granite gatepiers supporting oversize cast-iron lampbrackets.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Important and largely original interior. Re-slated 1992. It replaced an earlier church in the burgh built in 1777.
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