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Latitude: 54.8379 / 54°50'16"N
Longitude: -4.0473 / 4°2'50"W
OS Eastings: 268612
OS Northings: 551150
OS Grid: NX686511
Mapcode National: GBR 0D5H.KJ
Mapcode Global: WH4WB.SNXK
Plus Code: 9C6QRXQ3+53
Entry Name: St Mary's Church, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright
Listing Name: St Mary`s Street, St Mary`s Church
Listing Date: 28 May 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381436
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36616
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkcudbright, St Mary Street, St Mary's Church
ID on this website: 200381436
Location: Kirkcudbright
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Kirkcudbright
Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Church building
1872-4. Early decorated Gothic church. Nave with 4-stage tower and broached spire to right, gabled porch to left. 2 projecting transepts at E; snecked, squared granite with polished sandstone dressings. Central door in W front with pointed-arched reveals, 2 flanking side lights linked under continuous hoodmould. 4 light reticulated traceried window above. Door in tower as in gabled porch at left. Angle buttresses to tower capped by pinnacles. Louvered belfry openings in 4th stage. 4 lucarnes at base of spire and 4 diminutive ones higher. 3 buttressed bays to nave with paired lights below and triangular lights to gallery, all with foliate label stops. Final bay with projecting aisles. Slate roof.
Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such.
Converted as residential circa 1987. Former Free Church. Foundation stone laid by Robert Cochran of New York, 20 August 1872.
Thomas Clark a local artist contributed $500 towards the costs. The church cost more than $5,000 to build.
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