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Presbytery, St Mary's R.C. Church, New Abbey

A Category B Listed Building in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9786 / 54°58'43"N

Longitude: -3.6161 / 3°36'58"W

OS Eastings: 296662

OS Northings: 566085

OS Grid: NX966660

Mapcode National: GBR 3B5W.X3

Mapcode Global: WH5X3.F484

Plus Code: 9C6RX9HM+CG

Entry Name: Presbytery, St Mary's R.C. Church, New Abbey

Listing Name: New Abbey Village St Mary's RC Church and Presbytery

Listing Date: 26 June 1986

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351206

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17311

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351206

Location: New Abbey

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Abbey

Parish: New Abbey

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

Tagged with: Clergy house

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Description

Walter Newall, architect. Built circa 1824. T-plan presbytery
and rectangular church combined in cruciform-plan
arrangement. White granite rubble, red ashlar dressings, west
wing of presbytery harled. Presbytery is 2 storeys, most
windows hood-moulded, string at cill level to either floor,
sash windows mostly small-paned; bipartites in north gable,
projecting ground floor bipartite in west gable; low, lean-to
in either re-entrant angle (porch at north) beside window in
tall pointed panel.
Church has 2 bays, pointed windows with wooden Y-tracery
(hood-moulded to north elevation), blind Tudor-arched window
to east gable, above gabled porch. Brick stack rises above
south wall. All main gables cross-finialed, shaped skews
above heavy corbels over wall-head. Roofed with graded
slates.
Interior of chapel: 2 leaded windows, that to north by Maver
& Co, Munich, after 1888, that to south, in similar style,
after 1901.
Cusped wooden panelling to sanctuary walls, and painted
Madonna and child, J G MacLellan of Dumfries, artist. Sundial
to west on plain octagonal granite column, bronze dial
inscribed "John Copland, fecit, May 1827"; designed for New
Abbey latitude.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

SRO plan include alternative design with cusped-traceried

windows.

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