St Andrew's Parish Church, Marle Street, Castle Douglas

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 23/04/1990 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Castle Douglas NGR NX 76394 61971 Coordinates 276394, 561971 — James Barbour, 1869; extended, Barbour, 1880-81; chancel, J. Jeffrey Waddell, 1931. Cruciform gothic church with 3-stage tower converted to theatre, 1992. Whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings. base and string courses; hoodmoulds; moulded and chamfered reveals. Transepts to N and S. TOWER: adjoined to SW corner of S transept. Pointed arch door at base with chamfered reveal, nookshafts and nailhead ornament; foliate label stops to hoodmould; 2-leaf boarded doors with decorative hinges. Semi-circular, stair tower to 2nd stage, on W return elevation with half-conical roof and lancet. Lancet to 2nd stage of tower; 3rd stage with 2 glazed arrowslits to each face and 2 tall louvred openings to bell chamber above, each in pointed arch panel. Crenellated parapet with colonnetted ashlar spirelet to SW angle. NAVE: 3 stepped lancets to W end, each with blind oculi in apron with carving; paired lancets on return elevations and slightly advanced single bay chapels by re-entrant angles, each with lancet in gabled dormerhead and tall piend roof breaking eaves studded with fleuron carvings. Gabled porch set in re-entrant to N, with pointed arch door and lancet in gablehead. TRANSEPTS: M-gabled; each gabled bay with tall plate traceried pointed arch window; ashlar cross finial. CHANCEL: wallhead breaking eaves in E gable with kneelers and 3 stepped lancets. Diamond-pane glazing. Decorative cast-iron gutter brackets. Grey slates. Saw-tooth ashlar coped skews with bracketted skewputts. Lead flashings and finials to piend and conical roofs. Interior: not seen 1990. Stained glass by Margaret Chilt

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.