Urr Parish Church, Castle Douglas and Crocketford, Dumfries and Galloway

Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9728 / 54°58'22"N

Longitude: -3.8501 / 3°51'0"W

OS Eastings: 281675

OS Northings: 565807

OS Grid: NX816658

Mapcode National: GBR 1BKY.86

Mapcode Global: WH4VV.T8TM

Plus Code: 9C6RX4FX+4X

Entry Name: Urr Parish Church

Listing Name: Urr Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Churchyard with Retaining Walls and Gates

Listing Date: 4 November 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350637

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16819

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350637

Location: Urr

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Castle Douglas and Crocketford

Parish: Urr

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

Peter MacGregor Chalmers, architect, 1914. Bull-faced red sandstone church with polished chamfered margins. Four-bay nave and aisle to north with two-light pointed-arch windows small-paned leaded glazing or stained glass. Tower to west with porch at base; hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorway with recessed double-leaf doors. Tower with one tall stage and belfry stage above with string course dividing stages. Belfry stage with cusped lancet openings and pointed-arch hood; crenellated parapet with small bartizans corbelled at angles and rainwater spouts. Stumpy facetted spire. Slate roofs.

Interior: entry from porch at base of tower to nave; four-bay aisle to left separated from nave by round arched arcade supported on piers of various section. Chancel arch supported on pilasters. Steps to marble dais at chancel; carved oak communion table and lectern. Chancel window by Douglas Strachan, aisle window (re-sited from previous church) by James Ballantine and Son (originally Ballantine & Allan, later Ballantine and Gardiner, then A. Ballantine & Son), nave windows David Gulland.

Dry stone walls to churchyard; main gates cast-iron with gatepiers supporting good Art Nouveau lamp brackets. Churchyard with many 18th and 19th century tombstones. Herries memorial: square painted rubble enclosure, corniced and with raised polished margins and quoins; memorial plaques to Herries family.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built on the site of 1815 church.

Minor updates to listed building record in 2022.

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