Dunscore Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Dunscore NGR NX 86661 84340 Coordinates 286661, 584340 — James Thomson of Dumfries, architect. Built 1823-4. Simple, rectangular-plan, 3-bay simply buttressed, Gothic church, 3-stage square tower at west gable. Rubble-built, with contrasting painted ashlar dressings, and long and short worked dressings to doors, windows and tower quoins. All openings hood-moulded and pointed, windows to body of church have simple Y-traceried mullion with transom at gallery level. Small panes, glazing bars also Y-traceried. Tower door faces west, lintelled doorway, traceried fanlight; windows to flanks. Tower stages off-set; blind window (continuous cill course at eaves level) to each face of middle stage; louvred belfry openings (with modern clock to 2 faces) above. Pinnacles to buttresses linked by simple parapet. Door between 2 windows in east gable; cill band, hood-moulds linked by string course on side elevations. Cornice and blocking course; slate roof. Interior: horseshoe gallery, with panelled front, on plain columns; curved pulpit below domed sounding board, latter supported by pilastered and panelled back board on west wall; flanking doors at middle stage of tower, with flight of steps to each. Quadrangular churchyard enclosure has rubble-built, ashlar-coped perimeter wall. Mostly 19th century monuments, but some earlier, notably 17th/18th century Grierson of Dalgonar enclosure. — Ecclesiastical Building in use as such. Category A for interior fittings.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.