Old Parish Church, Stranraer

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1997 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Stranraer NGR NX 05957 60798 Coordinates 205957, 560798 — 1838-41. 3-bay front to rectangular-plan Perpendicular church. Sandstone entrance elevation, whinstone to sides; sandstone dressings. Base course; buttresses dividing bays; flanking octagonal corner buttresses; pinnacles; octagonal shaft at gablehead, pinnacled finial missing; octagonal pinnacles to buttresses flanking central gabled bay. Tooled quoins to rear elevation and S, W and N window openings. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps flanked by railings and lamp standards to pointed-arch roll-moulded central entrance; 2-leaf timber door. Cross inset in oval disc; pointed-arch traceried window above, and to flanking bays. W ELEVATION: 4 centre-arched doorpieces to outer left and right; 2-leaf timber doors. Small brick lean-to at centre ground. Pair of pointed arched lights above. Small arched opening at centre above. N ELEVATION: 4 arched lights. Brick lean-to and stack at centre. Grey slate roof; stone skews; narrow coped brick wallhead stack to N elevation. INTERIOR: flat plaster ceiling; painted ribs and decorative bosses; simple plasterwork to 3 panels. U plan gallery on cast iron columns with bell-capitals and with panelled gallery front; timber dado panelling. Modern timber pulpit by Mackenzie and Partners Ltd, 1957; modern organ by William Hill and Sons and Norman and Beard, 1957; flanking stained glass by Alexander Kerr, 1957-8. Stained glass by John Blyth in N elevation. LAMP STANDARDS: late Victorian cast-iron lamp standards; foliaged cresting. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church stands on a site close to the original, first built in 1649. Built by Hugh McDowall and Andrew M

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.