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Latitude: 55.0877 / 55°5'15"N
Longitude: -3.1791 / 3°10'44"W
OS Eastings: 324833
OS Northings: 577662
OS Grid: NY248776
Mapcode National: GBR 697M.J0
Mapcode Global: WH6XW.4DD1
Plus Code: 9C7R3RQC+38
Entry Name: Waterbeck Church
Listing Name: Waterbeck Village, Waterbeck Church and Manse and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350770
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16942
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200350770
Location: Middlebie
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Parish: Middlebie
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Plain 1869. 1st pointed Gothic church with 1868 manse to W
connected by narrow link. All built of channelled bull-faced
red ashlar with polished dressings and hoodmoulds; slate
roofs.
CHURCH: T-plan, with twin-gabled E and W transepts, plain
square tower with broach spire in SW re-entrant angle with
gabled porch at foot, main roof swept over porch in
corresponding SE re-entrant angle. Tower has gabled louvred
belfry openings to all elevations, breaking eaves; S-facing
doors; 3 tall lancets in each main gable - those to S with
hoodmould stepped to link with eaves - quatrefoil and cross
finial. Saw-toothed skews.
INTERIOR: 3 S windows by Wm Meikle and Sons, Glasgow and
single W transept window all World War I memorial windows.
Pulpit (on N gable) has simple gothic detailing and pointed
backboard; exposed main roof timbers on stone corbels.
MANSE: 2 storeys, asymmetrical, with gothic details.
S ELEVATION: 3 bays, the left with single windows and lean-to
porch (hood-moulded pointed doorway) front wall of latter on
same plane as advanced remaining bays; gabled central bay
with plate-traceried tall stair window, bipartites in piended
right bay; saw-toothed skews, coped end stacks. Link with
church has S-facing door.
Rubble-built boundary wall to S with cusped cast-iron
railings linking square gatepiers with gabletted caps.
Church an ecclesiastical building in use as such.
1790 datestone of previous church incorporated at S end of
church W wall.
Published sources such as MacKelviee's ANNALS...OF THE UP
CHURCH, 1873, only gives details of previous church.
Change of Category B to C(S) 4.10.88.
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