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Saint Patrick's Church, Kirkpatrick-Juxta

A Category B Listed Building in Annandale North, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.2942 / 55°17'39"N

Longitude: -3.4461 / 3°26'46"W

OS Eastings: 308269

OS Northings: 600966

OS Grid: NT082009

Mapcode National: GBR 47C6.QZ

Mapcode Global: WH6WS.1686

Plus Code: 9C7R7HV3+MG

Entry Name: Saint Patrick's Church, Kirkpatrick-Juxta

Listing Name: Kirkpatrick-Juxta Parish Church and Churchyard

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342177

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9850

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kirkpatrick-juxta, Saint Patrick's Church

ID on this website: 200342177

Location: Kirkpatrick-Juxta

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale North

Parish: Kirkpatrick-Juxta

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

James Barbour of Dumfries circa 1875 incorporating existing

T-plan parish church; latter 1799 with 1824 repairs (? by

James Thomson) (?including construction of jamb). Enclosed by irregular-plan churchyard.

CHURCH: Rubble-built with ashlar dressings (original

dressings droved), whitewashed with contrasting red ashlar

margins and rusticated quoins: openings now mostly

round-headed, circular gable windows. Original building

totally re-modelled and heightened with vestry and porch

added at E gable below timber and slate birdcage apex belfry: conical-roofed stair turret added in SW re-entrant angle

(original door in W gable). Shaped skews; roofs covered with

graded slates.

Interior: also by Barbour, with extensive heavy timberwork.

CHURCHYARD: Enclosed by rubble-built walls, mostly

ashlar-coped: gate at W (no gatepiers). Mostly 18th and 19th

century stone monuments and headstones, some with good

artisan sculpture; some table tombs; good aedicular (Ionic)

Johnston of Bearholm monument to S of vestry dated 1753;

Young of Craigielands mural monument; polygonal stone

possibly from Staffa or Giant's Causeway.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Category B for quality of churchyard.

SRO NRA(S) Annandale Bundle 151/2 includes "Discharge .....

from Annandale's chamberlain for his proportion of casting

the bell of Kirk of Kirkpatrick Juxta, 18th November 1673";

also accounts for repairs 1716 and re-thatching 1725.

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