St Bride's Church, Church Road, Sanquhar

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Sanquhar NGR NS 77910 10181 Coordinates 277910, 610181 — James Thomson of Dumfries architect. Built 1822-4. 3-bay rectangular-plan Gothic chruch with 3-stage square tower at W gable; 1930 (dated) aisled chancel and N transept added, Jeffrey Waddel and Young of Glasgow, architects. All original openings pointed and hood-moulded, Y-traceried windows with ornamented small-paned glazing. All grey ashlar. Tower stages off-set, with W-facing door (canted addition in S re-entrant angle); single openings above, louvred at top; simple spiked pinnacles over tower angles and over stepped buttresses of angles and of bays. Chancel and transept each has window with cusped tracery below shallow gable; S-facing vestry door with inscribed lintel, crest above. Tall aisles are flat-roofed, other roofs mostly slated. INTERIOR: (refitted 1930) wall plaster removed, exposing rubble; gallery at W with panelled front is supported on square columns, low pulpit below chancel arch, arched tomb recess opposite with effigy; organ on chancel N wall; some leaded windows; chancel window by J T & C E Stewart. CHURCHYARD: (extended to N 19th century and now to W) irregular-plan enclosure; rubble-built walls, main gate to S beside shed; corniced square, ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps; mostly 17th-20th century stone monuments, (some, including early cross slab, built into churchyard wall) and site of earlier church: martyr's graves; tall, Provost Hamilton obelisk erected 1816. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Old Church foundations, Effigy and cross slab described in RCAHM INVENTORY 1928-nos. 548-550.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.