Morton Parish Church, Manse Road, Thornhill

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Morton NGR NX 88235 95813 Coordinates 288235, 595813 — William Burn, Architect. Built 1841. Gothic church with round-arched details, simple rectangular-plan, 4-stage square tower at west; low vestry at north east angle by James Barbour, 1904. Stugged pinkish coursers, polished dressings. Hood-moulded round-headed openings with moulded and splayed reveals. Tower: lower stages off-set, stepped angle buttresses continued as clasping pilaster strips, with pinnacles above corbelled open parapet; west-facing door has nook-shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded arch; louvered bipartite each face of top stage, clock to 3 faces of stage below. Body of church with 5 buttressed bays and corbelled parapets; pinnacled angle buttress; 5 lights in east gable, 2-bay vestry in similar style; porch alongside. Slate roofs. Interior: ceiling barrel-vaulted, with ribs and bosses; horseshoe gallery with panelled front on cast-iron columns. Leaded windows on east gable, that to north by Ballantine and Gardner, circa 1892, others circa 1883-circa 1903. Romanesque font 1887.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.