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Latitude: 54.8698 / 54°52'11"N
Longitude: -4.4396 / 4°26'22"W
OS Eastings: 243544
OS Northings: 555503
OS Grid: NX435555
Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.53P
Mapcode Global: WH3TT.SV2N
Plus Code: 9C6QVH96+W4
Entry Name: Churchyard, Wigtown Parish Church, Church Lane, Wigtown
Listing Name: Wigtown Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Churchyard
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388979
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42441
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Wigtown, Church Lane, Wigtown Parish Church, Churchyard
ID on this website: 200388979
Location: Wigtown
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Wigtown
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Churchyard
Built 1858. Neo-gothic rectangular hall church with side aisle and tower projecting from E wall; gables to N and S. Lower vestry and porch project to W. Rubble walling with polished cream ashlar quoins, margins,and dressings; buttressed angles. Gable walls with 3 tall stepped lancet windows and oculus to gable apex. 5-bay flanks with single lancets. Side aisle to E with 3 tall lancets. Tower in 3 stages, buttressed to 2nd stage. Pointed-arch entrance to ground; single lancets to 2nd stage; louvred bipartites to 3rd. Pyramidal tower roof with slates alternating with bands of fish-scale tiles. Good slate roof to main church; saw-tooth end skews; decorative finials.
INTERIOR: 3-arch screen to side aisle, stained glass lights to gable ends. Open timber trussed roof.
CHURCHYARD: rubble walled churchyard with some good carved 18th and 19th century gravestones. Site of Wigtown Old Parish Church (see separate items). Low coped rubble wall with ashlar gatepiers and internal piers with pyramidal caps (gates missing).
MARTYRS GRAVE: Square enclosure with cast-iron fleur-de-lis-railings, some missing, tabletop monument and 2 gravestones.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
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