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Latitude: 55.3704 / 55°22'13"N
Longitude: -3.928 / 3°55'40"W
OS Eastings: 277910
OS Northings: 610181
OS Grid: NS779101
Mapcode National: GBR 160B.DP
Mapcode Global: WH4SW.M8QT
Plus Code: 9C7R93CC+5R
Entry Name: St Bride's Church, Church Road, Sanquhar
Listing Name: Church Road, Sanquhar Parish Church, (St Bride`s) and Churchyard Including Hamilton Monument
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386475
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40538
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200386475
Location: Sanquhar
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Sanquhar
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
James Thomson of Dumfries architect. Built 1822-4. 3-bay rectangular-plan Gothic chruch with 3-stage square tower at W
gable; 1930 (dated) aisled chancel and N transept added,
Jeffrey Waddel and Young of Glasgow, architects. All
original openings pointed and hood-moulded, Y-traceried
windows with ornamented small-paned glazing. All grey ashlar.
Tower stages off-set, with W-facing door (canted addition in
S re-entrant angle); single openings above, louvred at
top; simple spiked pinnacles over tower angles and over
stepped buttresses of angles and of bays. Chancel and
transept each has window with cusped tracery below
shallow gable; S-facing vestry door with inscribed lintel,
crest above. Tall aisles are flat-roofed, other roofs
mostly slated.
INTERIOR: (refitted 1930) wall plaster removed, exposing
rubble; gallery at W with panelled front is supported on
square columns, low pulpit below chancel arch, arched
tomb recess opposite with effigy; organ on chancel N
wall; some leaded windows; chancel window by J T & C E
Stewart.
CHURCHYARD: (extended to N 19th century and now to W)
irregular-plan enclosure; rubble-built walls, main gate to
S beside shed; corniced square, ashlar gatepiers with
pyramidal caps; mostly 17th-20th century stone
monuments, (some, including early cross slab, built into
churchyard wall) and site of earlier church: martyr's
graves; tall, Provost Hamilton obelisk erected 1816.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Old Church foundations, Effigy and cross slab described in
RCAHM INVENTORY 1928-nos. 548-550.
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