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Tongland Parish Church

A Category B Listed Building in Tongland, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.863 / 54°51'46"N

Longitude: -4.0302 / 4°1'48"W

OS Eastings: 269794

OS Northings: 553914

OS Grid: NX697539

Mapcode National: GBR 0D96.8J

Mapcode Global: WH4WC.2148

Plus Code: 9C6QVX79+6W

Entry Name: Tongland Parish Church

Listing Name: Tongland Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Churchyard

Listing Date: 4 November 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350985

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17127

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350985

Location: Tongland

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens

Parish: Tongland

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

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Description

Dated 1813. Rectangular neo-Gothic hall church with square
tower to N and later vestry/porch to S gable.
Sandstone rubble with polished red sandstone margins and
dressings, all openings recently blocked with breeze-block.
3-bay buttressed body of church, hoodmoulded Tudor-arch
windows. Slate roofs, sandstone skews.
Tower in 3 stages buttressed at angles. Pointed-arch
openings, louvred to 3rd stage, some bipartite under square
hooldmoulds. Corbelled embattled parapet with crocket
pinnacles rising from angle buttresses.
To E gable, circa 1900 single storey porch, flat-roofed with
embattled parapet.
Rubble-walled churchyard with mainly 19th-century
gravestones.
Churchyard contains ruins of Tongland Abbey (see separate
item).

Statement of Interest

B group with Tongland Abbey.

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