Parish Church and Burial-Ground, Borgue

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Borgue NGR NX 62893 48303 Coordinates 262893, 548303 — Walter Newall, architect; 1814 porch and interior circa 1890, style of James Barbour of Dumfries. T-plan neo-Gothic church with square tower to E wall. Squared coursed rubble, polished red sandstone margins. 2-bay nave with shallow projecting buttressed porch to S and W gables. N gable with circa 1890 square gabled porch. Wide 4-centre arched windows with unusual 2-tiered tracery (an early use of this motif) and hoodmoulds. Small-pane stack. Tower in 3 stages with intermediate band courses. Single lancets to 1st, bipartite with hoodmoulds to 2nd, louvred openings to 3rd; cornice, embattled parapet with squat pinnacles to angles. Kneeler skewputts to gables with scroll skewputts. Stumps of removed cross-finials remain. Slate roofs throughout. To N gable square plan, single-storey later 19th-century porch/vestry; rubble walling, embattled parapet. To SE re-entrant angle good cast-iron spiral stair gives access to narrow door at 2nd stage of tower. INTERIOR: refitted circa 1890, timber lined open truss roof also of 1890 date. Rubble walled churchyard with mainly 19th century stones.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.