Kirkpatrick Fleming Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkpatrick-Fleming NGR NY 27646 70096 Coordinates 327646, 570096 — 18th and 19th centuries. T-plan parish church with mainly round-headed windows, gallery forestair and porches in re-entrant angles, gable-head birdcage belfry over N jamb, vestry and porch adjoin E and N gables respectively. 2 burial enclosures (including fine renaissance Mossknowe enclosure - listed separately) adjoin at W. Church built of red rubble, ashlar dressings and margins; roofs covered with graded slates, red ridging tiles, finials over E and W gables. Suggested building sequence: E and W gables and N wall of body of church probably 1733; "partly rebuilt" (NSA) circa 1778, i.e. (presumably) heightened several courses and long S wall rebuilt (forming deeper plan church) with voussoired key-stoned and aproned windows and narrow base course; N jamb perhaps contemporary (though openings originally square-headed). Renovated 1892 - N porch, roof with ridging tiles and belfry all date from then. INTERIOR: mostly probably by (?William) MacGowan, 1835. 3 galleries with panelled fronts and each supported on 2 slender cast-iron columns; octagonal pulpit central on south wall, with round-arched back board. CHURCHYARD: Circa 1796 rusticated Irving of Woodhouse enclosure abuts jamb; red ashlar, white marble inscription panels. Plain red ashlar enclosure at SW end of churchyard. Churchyard enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble built walls, gates at N and at W with square gatepiers. Mainly 18th and 19th century headstones.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.