Description

James Barbour of Dumfries, architect. Built 1878. Cruciform-

plan Gothic church with tall 3-stage square tower at north

west. Bull-faced and snecked red ashlar with polished

dressings. Tower: has west-facing doorway under gabled head;

2-leaf panelled door, traceried fanlight and moulded reveals; hood-moulded slit openings to 2nd tower stage; top stage

has traceried open paired lights to each face recessed in

pointed panel, latter on shafted jambs; open worked parapet;

angles buttressed, set-off and gabletted at each tower stage;

gargoyles and gabletted and crocketted pinnacles above

angles. Body of Church: windows are mostly hoodmoulded and

pointed, with distinctive cusped geometric tracery; 2-bay

nave; large gable windows to nave and transepts; east rose

window. Continuous string at cill level. Buttresses at angles

and dividing bays; saw-toothed skews; roofed with graded

slates and red ridge tiles. Flat-roofed organ chamber and

gabled vestry in re-entrant angles at east (former by

Barbour, 1912). Interior: elaborate hammer-beam roof on

carved stone corbels, with some cusped decoration to

timberwork. Dado panelling, cusped at east end; reredos;

octagonal pulpit. Some leaded glass windows (one signed St

Enoch Glass Studios, Glasgow 1948). Set behind simple cast-

iron railings with gabletted square gatepiers; churchyard and old

church to north listed separately.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A group with

Closeburn School and Wallacehall

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791682

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