Saint Patrick's Church, Kirkpatrick-Juxta

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkpatrick-Juxta NGR NT 08269 00966 Coordinates 308269, 600966 — James Barbour of Dumfries circa 1875 incorporating existing T-plan parish church; latter 1799 with 1824 repairs (? by James Thomson) (?including construction of jamb). Enclosed by irregular-plan churchyard. CHURCH: Rubble-built with ashlar dressings (original dressings droved), whitewashed with contrasting red ashlar margins and rusticated quoins: openings now mostly round-headed, circular gable windows. Original building totally re-modelled and heightened with vestry and porch added at E gable below timber and slate birdcage apex belfry: conical-roofed stair turret added in SW re-entrant angle (original door in W gable). Shaped skews; roofs covered with graded slates. Interior: also by Barbour, with extensive heavy timberwork. CHURCHYARD: Enclosed by rubble-built walls, mostly ashlar-coped: gate at W (no gatepiers). Mostly 18th and 19th century stone monuments and headstones, some with good artisan sculpture; some table tombs; good aedicular (Ionic) Johnston of Bearholm monument to S of vestry dated 1753; Young of Craigielands mural monument; polygonal stone possibly from Staffa or Giant's Causeway. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Category B for quality of churchyard. SRO NRA(S) Annandale Bundle 151/2 includes "Discharge ..... from Annandale's chamberlain for his proportion of casting the bell of Kirk of Kirkpatrick Juxta, 18th November 1673"; also accounts for repairs 1716 and re-thatching 1725.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.