Buittle Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Buittle NGR NX 80801 59890 Coordinates 280801, 559890 — Walter Newall architect; John Graham of Castle Douglas site architect and contractor 1819. Buttressed Gothic hall church with tower to N gable. Gabled extension to S to give chancel and vestry built 1902, James Barbour, architect. Harled granite walling with red sandstone dressings and buttresses, stepped at angles. All openings pointed arch with simple chamfered margins and hoodmoulds. Main elevation to N with projecting 3-stage tower. 4-centred arched door with moulded reveals. 2nd stage with cusped Y-tracery lancets to each face; single louvred openings to 3rd stage. Crenellated parapet with angle pinnacles. 3-bay buttressed nave, windows with timber tracery (American redwood) and leaded diamond panes. Red sandstone string course to cills and eaves. Asymmetrical gabled extension to S with large triple lancet windows. Slate roofs. INTERIOR: porch at base of tower opens into aisleless nave. Seating plan dates from 1902. Raised dais at chancel with octagonal pulpit. 3-light stained glass chancel window by Douglas Strachan, war memorial of 1920. Elaborate coffered ceiling to nave with good plaster cornices; ribbed ceiling to chancel. Rubble walled church yard with sandstone coping, pair of coped rubble gatepiers; cast-iron gate. Churchyard with many 17th century stones. Monuments within walls of ruined Old Church (see separate item). — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Estimated cost of building 1817 - $1000. Part of B group with Buittle Old Church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.