Balmaghie Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Balmaghie NGR NX 72277 66318 Coordinates 272277, 566318 — Dated 1794; 1891-4 porch and vestry, internal alterations by Peddie and Kinnear. 1893 level of tower lowered and re-roofed, James Barbour architect. T-plan church with octagonal tower to centre of long side (S). Painted rubble; polished red sandstone margins to all openings - probably all of late 19th century date; pointed arch windows, some with Y-tracery. Lean-to porch to SW gives access to church. S elevation 5-bay with Y-tracery to outer bays, lancet inner bays and central octagonal tower with pointed arch door with eliptical datestone above inscribed MDCCXCIV, restored 1894 and 1913. Band-course over ground stage. Pointed-arch louvred under over door. Octagonal slate roof with tall weathervane. INTERIOR: remodelled 20th-century, panel-fronted galleries to E and W jambs. Central pulpit with carved reredos, 2 stained glass lancets. Modern timber-lined coved ceiling. CHURCHYARD: rubble walled churchyard around church. Mainly late 18th or 19th century gravestones. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Canmore notes that the church was built in 1794 on the site of a previous place of worship and it was restored in 1894 and 1913. The earlier place of worship belonged to the Priory of Iona but by the time of the Reformation was owned by the Abbey of Holyrood. Canmore explains that a fragment of the previous church is now part of the east gate. Listed building record updated in 2014.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.