Old Parish Church, Church Street, Annan

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Annan NGR NY 19584 66612 Coordinates 319584, 566612 — Design probably by John Hannah, mason and James Beattie and John Oliver, wrights. Dated 1789. Parish church with classical details, 5-stage tower with spire central on main S elevations. Body of church rectangular-plan, originally with rear forestairs; latter replaced circa 1870 by large session house with vestibules housing gallery steps in re-entrant angles. All coursed red rubble with polished margins and rusticated quoins, slate roofs. TOWER: (upper part completed between 1798 and 1801), 4 lower stages square, rusticated lower stage with Doric-columned and pedimented doorpieces, panelled door with decorative fanlight; Venetian window in stage above, clock faces to all elevation in off-set 4th stage, octagonal drum above with louvred round-headed belfry openings, stone steeple with weather vane finial. BODY OF CHURCH: 2 tall round-headed windows each side of tower (2 leaded windows inserted 1912, outer windows with intersecting tracery); 3-bay flanks (originally with central doors) have windows at ground and at gallery level, the latter round-headed. Continuous cornice. INTERIOR: altered, probably when alterations to N were carried out circa 1870. Gallery to 3 sides supported on cast-iron columns and with panelled timber front, Town Council's bench central with (original) decorative barrel vaulted canopy supported on fluted square columns; pulpit central on S wall with (?circa 1900) organ case behind. 2 marble monuments on N wall. CHURCHYARD: presumably opened circa 1789, when old parish church was abandoned. Mainly 19th century stone monuments; Gothick mausoleum at N with central pyramidal finial;

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.