Description

John Jardine contractor, Messrs MacLauchlan, Gatelawbridge, masons, Samuel Bell, joiner. Built circa 1843. Former Free church built on sloping site. Plain rectangular-plan with lower (?)vestry adjoining west gable, west-facing flat-arched cartway at basement level alongside. Rubble-built with ashlar dressings; painted margins to tall, round-headed windows (these mostly now blocked). Gabled red ashlar porch with round-headed doorway central on north wall and off-centre at west. 5 windows on north wall 4 on south wall, 3-light east gable windows (bronze ?) birdcage belfry over west gable with tall weathervane finial. Slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

No longer in ecclesiastical use. Duke of Buccleuch would not grant a site for a free church and the best available site proved to be this sloping, roadside garden plot. Virginhall congregation joined Morton

UP in 1924 (3rd Stat. Acc. p.188).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56622769

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