Closeburn Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Closeburn NGR NX 90370 92277 Coordinates 290370, 592277 — James Barbour of Dumfries, architect. Built 1878. Cruciform- plan Gothic church with tall 3-stage square tower at north west. Bull-faced and snecked red ashlar with polished dressings. Tower: has west-facing doorway under gabled head; 2-leaf panelled door, traceried fanlight and moulded reveals; hood-moulded slit openings to 2nd tower stage; top stage has traceried open paired lights to each face recessed in pointed panel, latter on shafted jambs; open worked parapet; angles buttressed, set-off and gabletted at each tower stage; gargoyles and gabletted and crocketted pinnacles above angles. Body of Church: windows are mostly hoodmoulded and pointed, with distinctive cusped geometric tracery; 2-bay nave; large gable windows to nave and transepts; east rose window. Continuous string at cill level. Buttresses at angles and dividing bays; saw-toothed skews; roofed with graded slates and red ridge tiles. Flat-roofed organ chamber and gabled vestry in re-entrant angles at east (former by Barbour, 1912). Interior: elaborate hammer-beam roof on carved stone corbels, with some cusped decoration to timberwork. Dado panelling, cusped at east end; reredos; octagonal pulpit. Some leaded glass windows (one signed St Enoch Glass Studios, Glasgow 1948). Set behind simple cast- iron railings with gabletted square gatepiers; churchyard and old church to north listed separately. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A group with Closeburn School and Wallacehall

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.