St Ninian's Episcopal Church, Whitepark Road, Castle Douglas

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Castle Douglas NGR NX 76566 61941 Coordinates 276566, 561941 — E B Lamb, architect, 1864. Unusual chunky Gothic polychrome granite church. Rectangular hall with nave adjoined by narrower lower chancel to E. Tower of 1875 to re-entrant angle at NE. Porch to SW and vestry to SE, both low gabled structures. Bull-faced coursed rubble with granite margins, stepped granite to basecourse. Window margins bull-faced to wall-face, polished inner arrisses. Pointed-arch entrance to porch, trefoil-headed lancets, singly or grouped 2 x 2 at W gable or 5 at E gable. Granite corbels at eaves support polished granite blocking course and granite skews. Slate roofs with alternate rows of fish-scale slates. Tower buttressed and in 3 stages; corbelled 3rd stage with trefoiled lights in roundels; corbelled parapet stepped-up at angles. INTERIOR: pointed chancel-arch supported on label-stops/corbels. Octagonal timber pulpit. Roof ribs supported on stone corbels. Stained glass by Taylor. Rubble walls to churchyard with granite coping and caps to gatepiers.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.