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Latitude: 55.2125 / 55°12'45"N
Longitude: -3.7245 / 3°43'28"W
OS Eastings: 290370
OS Northings: 592277
OS Grid: NX903922
Mapcode National: GBR 28F5.G8
Mapcode Global: WH5VW.R7MV
Plus Code: 9C7R677G+26
Entry Name: Closeburn Parish Church
Listing Name: Closeburn Church and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 335183
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB4007
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Closeburn
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Closeburn
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
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.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A group with
Closeburn School and Wallacehall
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