Description
Walter Newall, architect. Built circa 1824. T-plan presbytery
and rectangular church combined in cruciform-plan
arrangement. White granite rubble, red ashlar dressings, west
wing of presbytery harled. Presbytery is 2 storeys, most
windows hood-moulded, string at cill level to either floor,
sash windows mostly small-paned; bipartites in north gable,
projecting ground floor bipartite in west gable; low, lean-to
in either re-entrant angle (porch at north) beside window in
tall pointed panel.
Church has 2 bays, pointed windows with wooden Y-tracery
(hood-moulded to north elevation), blind Tudor-arched window
to east gable, above gabled porch. Brick stack rises above
south wall. All main gables cross-finialed, shaped skews
above heavy corbels over wall-head. Roofed with graded
slates.
Interior of chapel: 2 leaded windows, that to north by Maver
& Co, Munich, after 1888, that to south, in similar style,
after 1901.
Cusped wooden panelling to sanctuary walls, and painted
Madonna and child, J G MacLellan of Dumfries, artist. Sundial
to west on plain octagonal granite column, bronze dial
inscribed "John Copland, fecit, May 1827"; designed for New
Abbey latitude.