Johnstone Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Johnstone NGR NY 10024 91343 Coordinates 310024, 591343 — 1733 church remodelled and enlarged 1819 (dated) by Andrew Burnet, mason; further alterations and additions by James Barbour, 1881; enclosed by churchyard. Church: rubble-built; rusticated quoins, keystoned and round-arched openings (all altered or constructed in 19th century) and eaves course and cornice all ashlar. Church originally rectangular-plan with yellow ashlar quoins and splayed base course (later dressings mostly red ashlar); long S wall now 2 bays; additions full-width of N wall in 2 stages, the lesser (former 18th century aisle) built first and now demolished (some rusticated quoins survive below session room stair and on 1819 jamb); second (probably 1819) addition (jamb, forming L-plan church) extends W elevation to 3 bays with central door now a window with dated arch re-set (?by Barbour). Pyramidal-roofed square full-height addition (also 1819) adjoins at NE and has basket-arched N-facing hearse-house at ground, session house above and good birdcage belfry (present bell 1917) over E wallhead: flat-roofed low porch and vestry (?all by Barbour) fill SE re-entrant angle: other roofs piended and slated. Interior by Barbour, roughly following 1819 arrangement; (original woodwork in session house addition); low hexagonal pulpit in SW re-entrant angle: gallery at E with panelled front supported on 2 cast-iron columns is now enclosed forming upper room: bell in vestibule said to be from Lochwood Tower. Churchyard: quadrangular enclosure with ashlar-coped rubble-built walls; gate with rusticated square piers at either end of E wall. Mostly 18th and 19th century stone monuments, some large

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.