Old Luce Parish Church and Churchyard, Church Street, Glenluce

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1972 Last Date Amended 17/12/1979 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Old Luce NGR NX 19698 57428 Coordinates 219698, 557428 — 1814; extensively remodelled by Ian W D Macdonald, 1967-8. T-plan church. Dry-dashed. Concrete margins and quoin strips. Eaves course. Keystones and imposts to round-arched windows. Small-pane opaque glazing. Modern tiles. W ELEVATION: flat-roofed rectangular-plan porch, with eaves cornice and blocking course (1967); keystoned round-arched doorway, with double-leaf door, at centre to E; window to left and right; quoined lancet window to N and S returns. Round-arched window at centre above. Birdcage bellcote, with curved base, stepped roof and modern weathervane; original bell (now rung electrically). S ELEVATION: 4-bay. Round-arched windows, with no margins, at ground floor; blind in bay to outer right. Square windows above; blind in bays to outer left and right. E ELEVATION: round window at centre. N ELEVATION: jamb advanced at centre. Gabled porch, with round-arched door, at centre to N (1967); small lean-to adjoined to left of porch; round-arched window above. Forestair to door to left to E return; window at centre and small window to right. Window to right to W return. Full-height rectangular projection (1967), with stair window to N, and eaves cornice and blocking course, in re-entrant angle to right. INTERIOR: completely remodelled, 1967-8. Rendered walls; boarded dado. Chancel to E; stone E wall; oak and marble pulpit, communion table and font by David Jardine of Stranraer. Raked gallery to W. Organ, built by Casey and Cairney of Glasgow, to N gallery. Vestry at ground floor to N; session house above, behind gallery. Original pews. Deep embrasures. STAINED GLASS

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.