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Latitude: 55.3662 / 55°21'58"N
Longitude: -3.9195 / 3°55'10"W
OS Eastings: 278433
OS Northings: 609694
OS Grid: NS784096
Mapcode National: GBR 162D.76
Mapcode Global: WH4SW.RDR2
Plus Code: 9C7R938J+F5
Entry Name: St Ninian's Church, Sanquhar
Listing Name: High Street, St Ninians Church, Hall, Gatepiers and Screen Wall
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386490
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40551
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Sanquhar, St Ninian's Church
ID on this website: 200386490
Location: Sanquhar
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Sanquhar
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Dated 1842. Rectangular-plan 3-bay Gothic church with
principal gabled elevation to street, plain hall added to N
(deeply recessed), low screen wall linked to manse. Street
elevation: polished grey ashlar (remainder rubble-built);
hood-moulded openings, Tudor-arched central door, gallery
window above with finialed ogival hood-mould, tall fanking
lancets; windows small-paned with intersecting tracery;
parapets, and stepped buttresses, inner 2 carried upwards as
octagonal shafts with pinnacles. Square-headed windows to
bays. Slate roof.
INTERIOR: canopied pulpit above precentor's box, and with
steps either side; flanking (unsigned) leaded windows dated
1901; horseshoe gallery with panelled front supported on
circular columns. 3-bay hall with gabled principal roadside
elevation built of bull-faced ashlar. Screen wall with wooden
gate and top of Sanquhar cross (1680) set above pedimented
base and flanking urns. Set behind spiked cast-iron gates and
railings, latter set on low coping; polished ashlar, slender,
octagonal gatepiers with projecting caps and lamp brackets.
B group with St Ninian's Manse. Item No 17. Ecclesiastical
building in use as such.
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