St Michael's Church, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category A Group Category Details 100000019 - 263, 264 Date Added 11/07/1961 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97552 75692 Coordinates 297552, 575692 — 1740-2 church tower; spire contracted for in 1742 by Alexander Fleck and Thomas Twaddel and added to previous church; latter demolished, present church built 1744-6, contractors Fleck and Twaddel with James Harley. All built of red sandstone, ashlar dressings and margins. Tower: square-plan; 4 undiminishing stages with rusticated openings, simple pinnacles enclose base of facetted tall (50') stone spire with lucarnes, gilded finial and cock. Vestibule opened, and present main door probably also formed, 1827. Church: rectangular-plan, with key-blocked round-headed windows, piended and platformed leaded and slated roof. 2 tall W-facing lights flank tower; 2 tiers openings to other elevations, though E wall also has 2 tall windows flanking pulpit; 4-bay long (N and S) flanks originally with doors in outer bays; doors nearest tower with 19th century porches; 1869 vestry at NE enlarged 1881. Eaves course; cornice. Interior: divided by 2 large stone arcades into "nave and aisles"; much altered; re-seated 1869; renovated 1881 and timber galleries (to 3 walls) renewed; pulpit central on each wall also probably 1881, though incorporating original back-board pilasters and bell-cast sounding board. Organ by Willis of London; stained glass windows; numerous memorial wall-plaques. 1451 bell re-cast 1818 and again 1839 by Thomas Mears, London. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The Town Council had called in William Adam who produced a scheme for a new church, but a plan "by the Tradesmen of this place..... (produced) ....at a considerable less charge....." was

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.