Church of St John The Evangelist, Newall Terrace, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 06/03/1981 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97500 76431 Coordinates 297500, 576431 — Slater and Carpenter of London, 1867. Aisled Gothic church with unaisled lower 2-bay chancel at S, tower at NE angle almost free-standing. Galillee added late in 19th century; hall to W extended by W F Crombie, 1925. Bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings and plain or hood-moulded lancets. Tower: plain lower stages with paired E-facing doors, engaged stair turret to lower stages of S wall, louvred bipartites at belfry stage; broached stone spire (120' high) with lucarnes. Single lights to buttressed aisle bays, close-spaced clerestory lights. Blocked eaves; cross-finialled gables; slate roofs. Galillee has arcaded lights. Hall is similarly detailed, with main gable elevation to N. Interior: Some work by H O Tarbolton, executed by firm of Scott Morton; unplastered walls; aisle arcades contrasting red and white ashlar, circular piers with foliated capitals; some good furnishings and detailing; carved timber rood screen and choir stalls; mosaic reredos. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. NMRS index links Alexander Ross of Inverness to St John's. Foundation stone laid in 1.8.1867.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.