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Wanlockhead Church, Church Street, Wanlockhead

A Category C Listed Building in Mid and Upper Nithsdale, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.3988 / 55°23'55"N

Longitude: -3.7846 / 3°47'4"W

OS Eastings: 287079

OS Northings: 613098

OS Grid: NS870130

Mapcode National: GBR 2600.FH

Mapcode Global: WH5TW.VK0K

Plus Code: 9C7R96X8+G5

Entry Name: Wanlockhead Church, Church Street, Wanlockhead

Listing Name: Wanlockhead Village Church (Church of Scotland)

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351046

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17190

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351046

Location: Sanquhar

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale

Parish: Sanquhar

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

Built 1848. Rectangular-plan 4-bay Gothic church. Whitewashed
rubble and ashlar dressings; west gable harled. Pointed
openings (windows hood-moulded) gabled porch at west end of
north wall; vestry diagonally opposite; stepped buttresses;
3-light east gable window (west window blocked); saw-toothed
skews; cross finials roofed with graded slates.
Interior: (now partitioned, eastern half only used for
services); pulpit with steps either side; leaded east window
above by Wm. Meikle and Sons, Glasgow, 1911; painted dados;
simple stencilling.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Repairs by Charles Howitt 1863; see SRO GD224/521/9

Owned by The Wanlockhead Museum Trust.

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