Kirkmichael Parish Church And Burial Ground

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkmichael (Dumf & Galloway) NGR NY 00484 88349 Coordinates 300484, 588349 — Built 1814. Simple, T-plan church. Rubble-built with red ashlar dressings. Round-headed openings; 4 windows on long east wall, door on north flank has fanlight with intersecting tracery. Off-centre later small square porch on west gable beside gabled vestry: birdcage apex belfry above. Eaves course; moulded eaves cornice; roofed with graded slates: (body of church is piended) apex ventilators. Interior: pews with raised and fielded panelled backs; gallery on west jamb; hexagonal pulpit on east wall with pedimented backboard, flanking stained glass windows c.1862 (Christ stilling the storm and Christ as the good shepherd; one other stained glass window dated 1934 (Our lady flanked by Faith and Hope). Irregular-plan churchyard, rubble-built ashlar coped walls, gate on north wall, beside stile, pyramidal caps at gatepiers. Some good 17th-19th century stone monuments including Stewart monument (urn-finialed Doric shaft on square base) and Scott family enclosure (Gothic mural monument with arcaded inscription panels). — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Possibly designed by John MacCracken of Dumfries who inspected the old church and made recommendations.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.