Ewes Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Ewes NGR NY 36922 90828 Coordinates 336922, 590828 — James Burnet of Ewesbank, Langholm, architect. Dated 1867. Rectangular-plan 5-bay Gothic church. Snecked and squared rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. Pointed-headed openings: all hood-moulded except at W. Gabled porch at N end of E wall, recessed 2-leaf door with columned jambs; 3-light window with columned jambs and mullions below cusped openings on either main gable, S window below relieving arch and gabled apex belfry (other gables all cross-finialed): continuous string at cill level, buttresses to bays and at angles: saw-toothed skews; all roofed with graded slates. Vestry on W wall. Ungalleried interior. Churchyard enclosed by rubble built walls, gate and spiked cast-iron railings at W on low coping. 17th-20th century stone monuments and site of St Cuthbert's Church; Tuscan Malcolm family tomb chest circa 1803; panelled and urn-finialed Laurie monument circa 1814. 1652 bell signed Jacobus Monteith mounted on tree to E of church. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. RCAHM Inventory, 1920, notes bell.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.