Hoddom Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Hoddom NGR NY 17835 73516 Coordinates 317835, 573516 — Roofless shell of T-plan gothic church by John Park, mason, 1817; enclosed by churchyard. CHURCH: rubble-built with stugged and graded pink quoins; polished red ashlar roll-mouldings, hoodmoulds, Y-tracery and spiky pinnacles. 3 porches (main porch in re-entrant angle; crow-stepped porches on long S wall), none, perhaps, original. Jamb also crow-stepped and with tall (formerly louvred) birdcage belfry. CHURCHYARD: enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls; gate to N with square gatepiers. 18th and 19th century stone monuments and 3 rectangular burial enclosures; orientation and rebuilt walling indicates 17th and 18th century enclosures (to S of present church) to have been built as aisles adjoining previous church; both these are rectangular-plan and rubble-built with ashlar dressings; 17th century enclosure with engaged circular shafts. — No longer in ecclesiastical use. Notice at site states that church was burned out on night of 2-3 February 1975. Present parish of Hoddom formed 1609 with this site chosen for church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.