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Latitude: 54.9597 / 54°57'34"N
Longitude: -4.4862 / 4°29'10"W
OS Eastings: 240913
OS Northings: 565610
OS Grid: NX409656
Mapcode National: GBR 4G.YRCG
Mapcode Global: WH3TF.2L0P
Plus Code: 9C6QXG57+VG
Entry Name: St John's United Free Church, York Road, Newton Stewart
Listing Name: York Road, Former Uf Church, Now Newton Stewart Museum with Boundary Walls Gatepiers, and Railings
Listing Date: 17 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384123
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38704
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384123
Location: Newton Stewart
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Newton Stewart
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Church building
Richard Park, architect, 1878. Former UF church, now in use as Museum. Gothic hall church with tall gable to street and spire to left. Coursed bull-faced rubble, polished cream and red sandstone dressings.
5-bay buttressed aisles. Entrance gable; pointed arch portal with nook shafts; 4 flanking asp-headed lancets. Above this, 3-light window with plate tracery. Buttressed aisles with 5 lancets. Spire in 3 stages with octagonal belfry stage rising to polychrome banded masonry spire with tiny louvered lucarnes, cross finial. Single storey piend-roofed vestry. End skews, banded slate roofs. Good cast-iron brackets to gutter. Interior: narthex with carved timber blind arcading. Main body of church with inserted floor and suspended ceiling.
BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: ashlar saddleback coping to low rubble walls. Part-chamfered gatepiers with tapered octagonal caps and moulded cornice bearing decorative cast-iron lamp standards (1 truncaded, 1 with lantern). Decorative cast-iron gates and railings.
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