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Ewes Parish Church And Churchyard

A Category B Listed Building in Ewes, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.2077 / 55°12'27"N

Longitude: -2.9927 / 2°59'33"W

OS Eastings: 336922

OS Northings: 590828

OS Grid: NY369908

Mapcode National: GBR 78J7.W0

Mapcode Global: WH7YJ.0C5L

Plus Code: 9C7V6254+3W

Entry Name: Ewes Parish Church And Churchyard

Listing Name: Ewes Parish Church and Churchyard

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342034

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9730

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342034

Location: Ewes

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale

Parish: Ewes

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

James Burnet of Ewesbank, Langholm, architect. Dated 1867. Rectangular-plan 5-bay Gothic church. Snecked and squared rubble

with contrasting ashlar dressings. Pointed-headed openings: all hood-moulded except at W. Gabled porch at N end of E wall,

recessed 2-leaf door with columned jambs; 3-light window with

columned jambs and mullions below cusped openings on either main

gable, S window below relieving arch and gabled apex belfry

(other gables all cross-finialed): continuous string at cill

level, buttresses to bays and at angles: saw-toothed skews; all

roofed with graded slates. Vestry on W wall. Ungalleried

interior. Churchyard enclosed by rubble built walls, gate and

spiked cast-iron railings at W on low coping. 17th-20th century

stone monuments and site of St Cuthbert's Church; Tuscan Malcolm

family tomb chest circa 1803; panelled and urn-finialed Laurie

monument circa 1814.

1652 bell signed Jacobus Monteith mounted on tree to E of church.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. RCAHM Inventory, 1920,

notes bell.

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