The Robert the Bruce

Heritage listing

Category A Group Category Details 100000019 - See Notes Date Added 14/12/1979 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97069 76286 Coordinates 297069, 576286 — T F Hunt of London, 1817, James Thomson of Dumfries as Interior: presumably 1848): unusual gallery, treated as executant architect. Built as Episcopal church, with giant tetrastyle Ionic portico to Buccleuch Street. Painted ashlar. 2 storeys, rusticated at ground; single bays flank portico; 3-bay elevation to Castle Street altered 1848 with full-height 5-sided pilastered apse central, with tall round-headed lights; flanking round-headed bipartites at gallery level with consoled cornices (perhaps altered 1848). Cornice; tall parapet, balustraded over openings; concealed roof with small-paned circular lantern. Some decorative cast-iron railings survive. entablature, and supported on cast-iron columns; ribbed dome below lantern. Seating and pulpit now removed. — No longer (1986) in ecclesiastical use. A Group with 75-81 Buccleuch Street, Greyfriars Church and Castle Street and George Street listings. Sketch by W C Aitken (copy in NMRS) shows church before alterations, with recessed inner bay to Castle Street, blank at lower level, gallery window (?tripartite) with consoled cornice under arched head. Re-opened 21.11.1848 following alterations.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.