St John The Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Abercromby Road, 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 76252 62317 Coordinates 276252, 562317 — 1867. Simple gothic church with spire and 2-storey presbytery adjoined. Whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar bands and dressings, base course; hoodmoulds. SPIRE AND ENTRANCE PORCH: adjoined to outer right bay of S elevation. Square base to spire with small lancet windows lighting stair, chamfered to octagonal form above eaves with louvred round-arched openings to each face of bell-chamber, bracketed eaves to polygonal ashlar spire; decorative cast-iron finial. Gabled porch set in re-entrant angle with pointed arch door, flanked by nookshafts with simple capitals; 2-leaf boarded door; stone cross finial. NAVE: buttresses dividing 5 bays to S elevation. Lancet in outer left bay, paired lancets in pointed arch panels to 3 centre bays with quatrefoil carving at apex. N elevation largely blank with set-off chimney breast to outer left with cigar-stack at wallhead; lancet to outer right. E elevation with large pointed arch panel comprised of plate traceried rose window and 2 traceried windows; 2 arrowslit windows below. Decorative stone cross finial at apex. APSE: formed of canted W end elevation, with lancet to outer bay to S and slender metal cross finial. Lead diamond-pane glazing pattern. Graduated grey slates. Decorative ridge ornament. INTERIOR: not seen 1990. PRESBYTERY: simple 2-storey presbytery adjoined to W end of church. Materials as above. Bipartite windows at 1st floor with column mullions and moulded lintels. S ELEVATION: 3-bay; gabled porch set in re-entrant angle at centre formed with advanced outer right bay; pointed arch arch door in roll-moulded surround; plate glass fanli

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.