Johnstone United Presbyterian Church, Hoddom Road, Ecclefechan

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Hoddom NGR NY 19255 74545 Coordinates 319255, 574545 — Dated 1865. T-plan church with simplified gothic detailing, 3-stage gabled square tower on nave N flank, transversely set hall and church officer's flat abuts E gable. Stugged red ashlar with polished dressings, tall narrow lights with elongated cusped heads mostly hood-moulded. TOWER: stairs within tall 1st stage outwardly expressed by parallel diagonal courses and stepped window levels; middle stage designed for clock faces; top stage with louvred openings in gables or gabled dormer heads. Continuous string raised as hood-mould over main door on W gable on body of church and blind flanking quatrefoils. Gabletted saw-toothed skews; slate roofs. Hall/flat facing door at ground shouldered-headed lights above. INTERIOR: 3 linked galleries on cast-iron columns and with panelled fronts; pulpit at E recessed behind large archway and with good decorative cast-iron balconied front with gothic details; "altar rail" also with good cast-iron work. Enclosed by cast-iron gates and railings, gabletted square red ashlar piers. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built as UP church; now serves as Hoddom parish church following destruction by fire of old parish church in 1975.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.