St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Central Avenue, Gretna

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/10/1988 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Gretna NGR NY 31772 66975 Coordinates 331772, 566975 — Raymond Unwin; C M Crickmer (site architect), circa 1917. Free-style church, aisled long, low Latin cross with shallow transepts, canted chancel, square tower in S re-entrant angle and low vestry opposite; unaisled westmost bay, main doors on W wall flank canted gallery stair turret; openings square or round-headed and mostly unmargined; harled, with brick dressings, arches and chancel pilaster strips; W door arches red-tiled. Tower has clock to each elevation and louvred paired round-arched openings to off-set Italianate top stage (other stages unexpressed), pyramidal roof with weathervane. Roofs all with projecting eaves, and covered with concrete tiles; variety of roof forms, facetted, piended or gabled, main roof with jerkin-head at W. INTERIOR: mostly painted brickwork; round-arched arcades to nave and transepts (N transept temporarily blocked off); segmental-vaulted ceiling with ribbed plasterwork; low octagonal (oak) pulpit; sanctuary raised with exposed brick and concrete facing; blind arcading at E. — Place of Worship in use as such. This church is a significant part of the streetscape of the planned town of Gretna. The church has a number of interesting decorative features, including the pyramidal-roofed tower with the deep-set round-arched windows, the round-ended east apse and the long low nave with the regular spaced windows. The church sits prominently on a corner of the town and the white harling and the brick margins are distinctive features of the building. The symmetrical west end, with the round-arched entrance doors and the canted central stair tower is particularly eye-catching.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.