Description
Datestones to E front, built 1842, rebuilt 1881. Francis
Armstrong of Dumfries, architect, 1881.
Hall church with tower to SE and hall to N. Bull-faced
granite walling, buttressed. All openings round-arched;
doorway with fanlight and double-leaf panelled doors flanked
by pairs of narrow lights, raised bandcourse over door. 3-bay
nave with single windows, rose window with plate tracery to W
with low projecting vestry.
Buttressed tower in 4-stages divided by raised bandcourses.
Round-arched louvered openings to 4th stage with corbelled
cornice rising to broached spire with weathervane; slate
roofs.
Low coped granite wall supports cast-iron railings. Pair of
square coped granite gatepiers, cast-iron gates.
Interior: decorated narthex with round-arched niches gives
access to aisleless nave and by paired corner stairs to deep
E gallery supported on cast-iron columns and with arcaded,
panelled front. Central pulpit transposed from former UP
Church, Dalbeattie; modern communion table and lectern. 1920
organ behind pulpit and flanked by round-arched doors to
small projecting vestry. All doors and rose window with
moulded plaster hoods. Coffered ceiling with elaborate
plaster cornices.
Single-storey bull-faced granite hall to SE with 2 Y-tracery
lancets in gable to Mill Street flanks partially rendered.