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Latitude: 54.8427 / 54°50'33"N
Longitude: -5.1167 / 5°7'0"W
OS Eastings: 199976
OS Northings: 554212
OS Grid: NW999542
Mapcode National: GBR FHRX.71L
Mapcode Global: WH1RF.CJQX
Plus Code: 9C6PRVVM+38
Entry Name: St Patrick Street, Old Parish Church
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350543
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16743
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Portpatrick,old parish kirk
ID on this website: 200350543
Location: Portpatrick
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Parish: Portpatrick
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Church building
SCHEDULED MONUMENT
1628-9. Roofless cruciform-plan church with earlier round tower to W. Date 1629 incised on a chancel skewputt. Rubble with red sandstone dressings. 63 feet 6 inches in length measuring from E to W, excluding projection of W tower; 24 feet 10 inches in width. Rectangular window openings (mullions removed in 1791). Entrances to W wall of N transept, S transept gable and nave?s S side (blocked). Remains of screen wall which separated W end of church (probably a later addition).
W Tower: 4-stage circular plan tower with string course dividing 2nd and 3rd stages. 16 feet 8 inches in diameter with 3 feet 6 inches thick walls. Slated round cupola added by Robert Montgomery, mason and Alexander Robinson, Wright, in 1791. Entrances to W at 1st stage and to E at 2nd stage (infilled). Small openings to each stage.
SCHEDULED MONUMENT. Ecclesiastical building, no longer in use as such (monument). See separate list descriptions for graveyard, manse, and bell (now in Portpatrick Parish Church). The former use of the W tower is unclear, as its openings are inconsistent with use either as a dovecot or towerhouse. The RCHAMS suggests usage in connection with an earlier church. More probably, as suggested by MacGibbon and Ross, the tower is a former lighthouse for an exceptionally dangerous coast. The authors comment that a similar round tower at the church of Cockburnspath occupies a corresponding site, looking out to sea.
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