Church of Scotland, Ervie-Kirkcolm Parish Church, Church Road, Kirkcolm

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1972 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkcolm NGR NX 02702 68691 Coordinates 202702, 568691 — 1824; interior remodelled and re-orientated 1964. T-plan church; former single storey vestry adjoined to E. Rubble; S elevation and vestry lime-washed. Sandstone ashlar dressings; droved rybats. Rebated chamfered margins. Pointed-arched windows. Timber tracery, mainly Y-tracery; small-pane clear glazing. Diagonal buttresses. Eaves cornice, continued under skews on gableheads. Coped skews. Cross finials to gableheads. Slightly graded grey slates. S ELEVATION: pointed-arched doorway at centre; double-leaf doors and lead-paned fanlight; sandstone steps up to door with plain iron handrails. Hoodmoulded window above, with 2-light perpendicular tracery. W ELEVATION: window to left and right. Gabled jamb at centre: door at centre; hoodmoulded window above, with 2-light perpendicular tracery; birdcage bellcote at apex, surmounted by cross finial and with bell. Square windows, with stop-chamfered concrete margins, inserted to return elevations: window to right at ground and to left at 1st floor to S return; 2 bipartite windows at ground to N return. N ELEVATION: blank (formerly with door at centre). E ELEVATION: 5-bay, with dividing buttresses. Windows in bays to left and right of centre. Gabled former vestry (replacing earlier vestry) in centre bay, with flanking buttresses removed; door to left and window to right to S; brick lean-to in re-entrant angle to N; brick gablehead stack to E. INTERIOR rectangular-plan. Painted plaster walls and boarded dadoes. Coombed ceiling. Decorative plaster rose. Octagonal pulpit to N (formerly at centre to E), with steps from left; communion table (1904); timber font (19

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.