Congregational Church, Irving Street, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 06/03/1981 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97139 76356 Coordinates 297139, 576356 — Style of Walter Newall. Built 1835 as Congregational Church, with tall narrow round-headed windows, pilastered narrow outer pavilions; lower recessed bay left encloses stair; 2-storey 2-bay terraced house to right (NW) converted probably 1862 to form halls and vestry. All polished red ashlar; slated roofs. Church has 3-light inner and single light outer windows, all multi-paned sashes, and recessed in shallow rectangular panels; deep cill band; arcaded corbel table carries main cornice; parapet; entrance bay left has wide round-headed doorway, blind fanlight with astragals cut in ashlar, round-headed bipartite over; wide pilaster strip left with blind round-headed lights; cornice to parapet. Church hall to right is plainer, round-headed door left, architraved windows, cornice and parapet; end stack. Interior: 1862; renovated and re-pewed 1880; some later alterations; gallery at NE with panelled front. Organ by John R Miller of Dundee, 1958. Set behind modern iron railings. — B Group with Items 132 and 182. Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Opened 6.9.1835.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.