Dornock Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Dornock NGR NY 23048 65984 Coordinates 323048, 565984 — Built 1793. Straightforward T-plan church with round-headed openings and 4-bay long S elevation; low vestry adjoins E gable; N porch added 1861 with unusual roof. Rubble-built with ashlar dressings, polished margins, impost blocks and keystones. Blind oculus in N gable and birdcage belfry; other main gables capped with ball-finialled blocks. Margined glazing perhaps 1861; straight skews; slate roofs. Interior: refurbished and re-seated by James Barbour 1884-5; panelled octagonal pulpit centre on S wall with pilastered (?original) backboard; gallery in jamb opposite - installed 1861 - has similarly detailed panelled front. Circa 1900 painted and leaded glass windows flank pulpit. Churchyard: important group of 3 13th century coped grave stones close to E boundary: the northernmost is earthfast and badly weathered; other 2 richly carved and supported on four small Romanesque capitals dating to the late 11th or early 12th century. Numerous good 17th -19th century headstones. Random rubble boundary walls; 2 gateways in E wall with square corniced gatepiers, those nearest N dated 1902 with wrought-iron gates. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A good late 18th century T-plan church with handsome Victorian interior. A grass-grown mound in the churchyard, covered by later graves represents the site of E end of the medieval church. The 13th century carved stones are of national importance.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.