Applegarthtown Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Applegarth NGR NY 10442 84300 Coordinates 310442, 584300 — Built circa 1760. Picturesquely-sited T-plan Gothic church remodelled and raised 3/4 masonry courses circa 1900, style of James Barbour of Dumfries. Circa 1689 square-plan Jardine Burial enclosure at E end of S wall has good classical detailing. All rubble-built with ashlar dressings; mostly whitewashed, CHURCH: most openings hood-moulded with exposed long and short worked dressings; shallow gabled porch centrally placed on each gable, traceried circular window on E and W gables, other windows pointed; forestair to laird's loft in E re-entrant angle of jamb. Gabletted skewputts; saw-toothed skews; belfry over W gable. Roofed with graded slates. Interior: essentially circa 1900, including laird's loft in N jamb; pulpit central on long S wall between 2 World War I memorial windows; continuous string course stepped as hood-mould over openings; open timbered roof. JARDINE BURIAL ENCLOSURE: continuous eaves course, cornice and blocking course, doorway central on S wall, lugged architrave and broken pediment with crest in tympanum; similarly treated pediment to pilastered (capitals not executed) monument against W wall, latter with large supporting scrolled brackets. Table tomb nearby. CHURCHYARD: roughly quadrangular area (extended to N late 19th century) enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls, rusticated square gatepiers to S gate and to both gates on E wall; gate on E wall nearest church is late 17th/mid 18th century with good cornices with ogee caps (?formerly ball-finialed). Mostly 18th and 19th century stone monuments, many with good classical ornament, some will sculptured figures; Egypto-

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.