Irongray Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkpatrick Irongray NGR NX 91512 79570 Coordinates 291512, 579570 — James Barbour of Dumfries, architect, 1872-3, incorporating rectangular-plan 1803 church by John MacCracken of Dumfries Romanesque style church, with 3-stage square entrance tower at south west. White washed rubble with red ashlar dressings. Round-headed openings, arches mostly with chevron ornament, columned jambs or mullions with cushion or scalloped capital Tower: south-facing doorway (lean-to vestry in north re- entrant angle) off-set top stage with louvred belfry opening in round arched panel to each face. Bipartites to 3-bay nave and 3-light wall head gable window westmost bay of either long elevation. Porch on east gable with gabled south-facing doorway. Saw-toothed skews; apex ventilator with parabolical roof; roofed with graded slates. Interior: leaded glass windows 1873-1960; west window by Stephen Adam, circa 1904; open timbered roof on stone corbels; round arched blind panel at west end; pulpit alongside and dado all modern. Irregular-plan churchyard enclosure, rubble-built walls, ashlar coping; plain chamfered square gatepiers with pyramidal caps - wrought- iron gates presented circa 1961. Some fine 17th-19th century stone monument including that of Helen Walker, prototype of "Jeanie Deans", erected by Sir Walter Scott.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.