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Latitude: 55.0703 / 55°4'13"N
Longitude: -3.6135 / 3°36'48"W
OS Eastings: 297069
OS Northings: 576286
OS Grid: NX970762
Mapcode National: GBR 396T.H7
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.GTJC
Plus Code: 9C7R39CP+4J
Entry Name: Methodist Church, 81, 83 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: 83 Buccleuch Street, Former Methodist Church and Railings
Listing Date: 14 December 1979
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362593
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26102
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362593
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
T F Hunt of London, 1817, James Thomson of Dumfries as
Interior: presumably 1848): unusual gallery, treated as
executant architect. Built as Episcopal church, with
giant tetrastyle Ionic portico to Buccleuch Street.
Painted ashlar. 2 storeys, rusticated at ground; single
bays flank portico; 3-bay elevation to Castle Street
altered 1848 with full-height 5-sided pilastered apse
central, with tall round-headed lights; flanking
round-headed bipartites at gallery level with consoled
cornices (perhaps altered 1848). Cornice; tall parapet,
balustraded over openings; concealed roof with
small-paned circular lantern. Some decorative cast-iron
railings survive.
entablature, and supported on cast-iron columns; ribbed
dome below lantern. Seating and pulpit now removed.
No longer (1986) in ecclesiastical use. A Group with 75-81
Buccleuch Street, Greyfriars Church and Castle Street and
George Street listings. Sketch by W C Aitken (copy in NMRS)
shows church before alterations, with recessed inner bay to
Castle Street, blank at lower level, gallery window
(?tripartite) with consoled cornice under arched head.
Re-opened 21.11.1848 following alterations.
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