Kirkmahoe Parish Church, Kirkton

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkmahoe NGR NX 97452 81531 Coordinates 297452, 581531 — Probably Walter Newall of Dumfries, architect. Built 1822-3; some internal re-ordering presumably by James Barbour of Dumfries circa 1889. Rectangular-plan, 3-bay Gothic church, with 3-stage square tower at west gable, gabled vestry added to inner bay of south wall. Stugged red ashlar coursers, with polished dressings. All openings hood-moulded. Tower has Tudor-arched door facing west; other openings all geometric traceried, louvered at upper stage; strings at cill levels, diagonal buttresses, stepped at each stage, with pinnacles rising above crenellated parapet. 2 buttressed and pinnacled, Tudor-arched and gabled shallow porches on cross-finialed east gable flanking large perpendicular- traceried window; also quatrefoil and cross openings. Diagonal buttresses with pinnacles reaching above eaves. Perpendicular-traceried windows to buttressed north and south elevation bays. Eaves band; slate roof. Vestry also has diagonal buttresses, and pointed window facing south; modern addition in west re- entrant angle. Interior: octagonal pulpit with canopy to north of east window; leaded east window; pews have panelled backs; ceiling has simple ribs; modern organ gallery on west wall. Ashlar-coped rubble-built wall encloses churchyard; square gatepiers with domed caps; hearse house to south. Some 18th- 19th century monuments with good classical ornament.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.