St Mary's Church, St Mary's Street, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 06/03/1981 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97560 76296 Coordinates 297560, 576296 — John Henderson of Edinburgh, 1837-9. Rectangular-plan 5-bay Gothic church; interior remodelled and single bay narrow chancel added (?1878) with porches and vestry in re-entrant angles. Red ashlar. Principal S gable elevation to St Mary Street divided by pinnacled buttresses into nave and aisles, pointed central doorway in shallow porch, 3 tall lights above (with secondary glazing protecting leaded windows) with timber cusping, pierced parapet linked to 2-stage square apex belfry with spire. Door to S end of both flank walls. Slate roofs. Interior: renovated and re-seated 1878 by Crombie brothers; gallery to 3 sides with cusped-panelled front, and supported on clustered cast-iron columns, upper tier columns with foliated capitals support thin arcade separating nave and aisles. Timber ceilings; leaded windows including memorial to Captain James Anderson of the "Great Eastern"; artists include Wm Meikle and Sons, and J T Stewart and J E C Carr. Good (gothic) brass lectern (1907). Organ by J J Binns, Leeds. Churchyard: boundary lined by continuous series of headstones; many good monuments, mostly with classical details, some with pediments; burial place of Captain James Anderson of the "Great Eastern". Some fragments of Christopher's chapel near main church door, and 1777 (dated) sundial on later pedestal. Massive gatepiers to roadside, retaining walls, steps, and cast-iron gates. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. On or near site of Christopher's chapel, founded by Christiana, sister of King Robert the Bruce, in memory of her husband, Sir Christopher Seton, who was executed on that spot for all

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.