St John's United Free Church, York Road, Newton Stewart

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 17/12/1979 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Newton Stewart NGR NX 40913 65610 Coordinates 240913, 565610 — Richard Park, architect, 1878. Former UF church, now in use as Museum. Gothic hall church with tall gable to street and spire to left. Coursed bull-faced rubble, polished cream and red sandstone dressings. 5-bay buttressed aisles. Entrance gable; pointed arch portal with nook shafts; 4 flanking asp-headed lancets. Above this, 3-light window with plate tracery. Buttressed aisles with 5 lancets. Spire in 3 stages with octagonal belfry stage rising to polychrome banded masonry spire with tiny louvered lucarnes, cross finial. Single storey piend-roofed vestry. End skews, banded slate roofs. Good cast-iron brackets to gutter. Interior: narthex with carved timber blind arcading. Main body of church with inserted floor and suspended ceiling. BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: ashlar saddleback coping to low rubble walls. Part-chamfered gatepiers with tapered octagonal caps and moulded cornice bearing decorative cast-iron lamp standards (1 truncaded, 1 with lantern). Decorative cast-iron gates and railings.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.