Church and Churchyard, Keir Mill

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Keir NGR NX 85966 93212 Coordinates 285966, 593212 — William Burn, architect. Built 1814. Rectangular-plan 3-bay Gothic church with engaged 3-stage square tower at west gable; octagonal angle stair turret, low narrow chancel and vestry added 1880, James Barbour of Dumfries. Stugged pink ashlar, polished dressings, window dressings contrasting red sandstone. Tudor-arched windows with perpendicular tracery; buttresses gableted above eaves level. Tower with west- facing door, chamfered angles, off-set top stage with crenellated parapet, stair turret rises above south west angle with louvered openings to each face and faceted and finialed roof. Windows hood-moulded at west. Lean-to vestry in south east re-entrant angle. Slate roof. Interior: re-modelled by Barbour; mostly 1880, 1905 organ gallery in tower with cusped-headed gallery framing; open timber roof panelled reredos; windows hood-moulded. Quadrangular churchyard enclosure, ashlar-coped rubble-built walls incorporating cottage at south, gate to west of latter; corniced square gatepiers with pyramidal caps. 19th- 20th century stone monuments. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. There was a delay before building a new church at Keir; a plan had earlier (1812) been produced by "Mr Elliot, architect at Drumlanrig" (presumably William Elliot).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.