Ruthwell Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 06/06/2017 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Ruthwell NGR NY 10066 68207 Coordinates 310066, 568207 — - Sanderson of Dalkeith, architect, 1803, remodelling existing parish church; earlier fabric incorporated, eg on Murray Aisle and at west end of south wall (blocked openings): T-plan: apse added centrally on long north wall by Campbell Douglas and Sellars 1887 to house Ruthwell cross: re-modelled 1906 by Barbour and Bowie of Dumfries; door and window openings mostly altered, re-roofed, with raised skews, skewputts and finials. Whitewashed rubble, red ashlar dressings. Openings round-headed, and mostly hoodmoulded; north and south-facing windows with pointed lights; door on east and west gables below quatrefoil light. Urn-finialed birdcage belfry over Murray aisle, corresponding ball-finialed cap to other gables: 2 pilastered axial ventilators: slate roofs, curved with diamond roof lights over apse. Interior: Ruthwell cross (PIC - see Notes ) within apse enclosed by simple iron balustrade, cross base below floor level; 1687 armorial panel above arched recess in Murray aisle; some leaded glass windows; simple roof vaulting; some bronze plaques 2 commemorating Henry Duncan, former parish minister and founder of Savings bank. Churchyard contains some fine monuments and is enclosed by high ashlar-coped rubble walls (extended to north 20th century), ball-finialed square gatepiers to south, stone stile steps alongside; monuments include elaborate Conder monument 1709; Duncan family mural monument 1832; tall Dickson monument early 19th century; table tombs, upright and recumbant slabs. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. NRA(S) 776, p. 662, includes an es

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.