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Latitude: 54.8679 / 54°52'4"N
Longitude: -4.4417 / 4°26'30"W
OS Eastings: 243401
OS Northings: 555298
OS Grid: NX434552
Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.B4K
Mapcode Global: WH3TT.RX22
Plus Code: 9C6QVH95+58
Entry Name: Sacred Heart RC Church, South Main Street, Wigtown
Listing Name: South Main Street Sacred Heart R.c. Church with Gates Gateposts, Railings and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 31 August 1992
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388958
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42420
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200388958
Location: Wigtown
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Wigtown
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Church building Gothic architecture
1879. Small brick Gothic church with apse; minimal red sandstone ashlar dressings to skews and ashlar coping. Slender cusp-headed lights. Wall buttresses.
N ELEVATION: gabled. Pointed arch door at centre with hoodmould continuing as string course below impost; single windows flanking and 2 pairs of windows above in gablehead either side of door. Gabled niche at apex bearing statue of Jesus Christ.
S ELEVATION: gabled bay at centre with gablet bellcote; bowed apse adjoined with half-conical roof. Lean-to sacristy in re-entrant angle to right, abutting apse with 3 small lights under eaves and door on return to right. Blank bay to outer left.
W ELEVATION: gabled projecting (Lady chapel) to right. Nave bays to left divided by buttress. E ELEVATION: gabled bay breaking eaves to left with 3 stepped lights above eaves line; buttress dividing bays to right. Diamond-pane leaded glazing. Grey slates with ornamental clay ridge tiles.
INTERIOR not seen 1992.
GATES posts, railings, and boundary walls: decorative cast-iron, gates, gateposts and railings (latter in trefoil form); low sandstone rubble boundary wall with ashlar coping.
Groome tells that the church was built in 1879 to seat a congragation of 250. The church school lies to the south.
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