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Middlebie Mission Church, Lauriesclose

A Category C Listed Building in Middlebie, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.1078 / 55°6'28"N

Longitude: -3.1501 / 3°9'0"W

OS Eastings: 326727

OS Northings: 579868

OS Grid: NY267798

Mapcode National: GBR 69FC.TT

Mapcode Global: WH6XP.LW55

Plus Code: 9C7R4R5X+4X

Entry Name: Middlebie Mission Church, Lauriesclose

Listing Name: Lauriesclose, Former Church, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 4 October 1988

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350795

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16960

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350795

Location: Middlebie

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale

Parish: Middlebie

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

James Barbour and John MacLintock Bowie of Dumfries,
architects, built 1904-5. Small Gothic church. Arts and
Crafts; now converted for domestic use. Snecked, bull-faced
red ashlar. Rectangular plan; squat, 2-storey square entrance
tower at N end of E wall.
TOWER: battered angle buttresses (similar single buttresses
at other angles); recessed E-facing door, window above breaks
through eaves and has gabled dormer head (louvred slits to
flanks); slated, steep pyramidal roof swept over eaves; 2-bay
aisle in S re-entrant angle with roof swept over, wallhead
gable to W. Plain, 5-bay W wall; 2 narrow pointed arched
windows in either gable. Slate roof.
Interior altered. Set behind coped, bull-faced ashlar wall,
latter stepped down slope, with square piers and shaped
wrought-iron railings; gatepiers have pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Opened 7.9.1905 as Middlebie Mission Church. Secularised.

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