Old Parish Church and Burial-Ground, Kirkmaiden

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 20/07/1972 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkmaiden NGR NX 12450 36920 Coordinates 212450, 536920 — 1638. T-plan church. Later alterations to openings. Bellcote, 1885. Vestry, 1921, adjoined to W. Rubble. 12-pane glazing in sash and case windows; coloured-margined glazing to bipartite window. Boarded doors. Coped skews; cement to church, red sandstone to vestry. Decorative red sandstone finials to gableheads. Slightly graded grey slates. Cast-iron rainwater goods. N ELEVATION: gabled jamb at centre; McDouall burial vault at ground floor, church gallery above; bipartite window, with sandstone mullion, in gablehead. Door to burial vault to left to W return; studded boarded door with decorative cast-iron hinges; polished pink granite plaque above inscribed "Sacred to the memory of the family of McDoualls of Logan . . . Vault closed in 1897". Window, with brick margin, to right. W ELEVATION: low gabled vestry adjoined slightly to right of centre; door (main entrance) to left to N; window to W; catslide lean-to in re-entrant angle to S, with door to W; brick margins. Gabled bellcote at apex of gablehead; red sandstone; coped base inscribed "1885"; cusped opening with bell; surmounted by stone finial and iron weathervane finial. Wallhead stack, with octagonal can, interrupting right skew. (Blocked window at gallery level). S ELEVATION: 3-bay (1-2). Window to each bay, smaller window in centre bay. (Blocked round-headed doorway between centre and right bays). E ELEVATION: door at centre. Window directly above. (Formerly window at gallery level). INTERIOR: painted plaster walls and timber dadoes. Coombed ceiling. Decorative plaster roses. Deep embrasures. Pulpit to S, with steps from right; round-head

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.