Description
Frank C Carruthers of Lockerbie and Dumfries. Dated 1898.
Parish Church with square tower at SE. Gothic. Snecked bull-
faced red ashlar with contrasting polished dressings.
Tower. Pair louvred openings each face of off-set top stage,
angle buttresses terminate as pinnacled shafts above
crenellated parapet, latter has caphouse and encloses short
stone spire.
Body of church: roughly T-plan, buttressed, transepts on
same plane as side aisles; canted chancel with flanking
vestries. Windows mostly grouped, stepped 3-light gable
windows at gallery level. Main door in E gable, with
gabletted head and flanking buttresses. Slated and finialed
roofs with prominent fleche.
Interior: elaborately detailed; 3-sided gallery and main
roof supported on tiers of square pillars; ribbed and
vaulted ceilings; stone pulpit; large organ case (organ by
Foster and Andrews, Hull, 1905); leaded glass windows.
Churchyard: contains mainly 19th century headstones, many
of high quality; ashlar-built boundary wall to roadside,
square gatepiers with moulded caps, cast-iron gates;
rectangular-plan LODGE with gabled porch and round-arched
windows.