Kirkland, Glencairn Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Glencairn NGR NX 80906 90471 Coordinates 280906, 590471 — William MacCandlish of Dalry, architect. Built 1836. Gothic church with north transept, forming T-plan; central 4-stage square tower on south wall. Symmetrical. Rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Door and window openings all hood-moulded with pointed heads, windows to body of church with elaborate intersecting (wooden) tracery and small panes. Tower has door with fanlight, moulded and shafted reveals, facing south. 2nd stage reaches above eaves, each face with tall lancet to 2nd stage; blind quatrefoil to 3rd stage, louvred lancet belfry opening to 4th. Clasping pilaster strips become octagonal angle shafts at top stage, these rise above crenellated parapet, with pinnacles. 2 large windows to each side of tower. East and west gables each have door (blocked west) below short gallery window and full-height flanking windows. Transept has unusual arrangement of large arched opening with north window and 3 doors recessed on north wall. Saw-tooth skews; pinnacles over gables and over clasping angle pilaster strips. Low vestry in north east re-entrant angle. Slate roofs. Interior: 3 galleries each on Tuscan columns, octagonal oak pulpit and communion table on south wall not original; white marble monument on east wall by H. Rouw of London, to Walter Ross Munro (d.1816); also bronze bust of Rev Patrick Borrowman by James Paterson ARSA, (1900) removed from Free Church circa 1960; leaded glass window dated 1948. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. 2 schemes proposing alterations to church by Peter MacGregor Chalmers not executed (drawings in church).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.