Tundergarth Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Tundergarth NGR NY 17503 80787 Coordinates 317503, 580787 — Churchyard enclosing 1900 parish church by James Barbour and roofless shell of 1770 old church. PARISH CHURCH: Gothic; basically rectangular-plan, 3 bays with square tower at SW, gabled organ-chamber in shallow E jamb opposite. Roughly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, tower and S gable harled. TOWER: door in re-entrant angle, W-facing window lights vestry at lower level; louvred and traceried opening each face of upper level, and simple parapet with birdcage belfry over one angle. BODY OF CHURCH: gabled timber canopy over paired doors at N end of W wall; elementary perpendicular tracery, jamb with rose window; single window to each gable; string at cill level. Saw-toothed skews and slated roof with projecting eaves. INTERIOR: octagonal pulpit with panelled front and decorative canopy; carved, open timbered roof on shaped corbels; leaded windows in either gable and on E wall, 2 of these by Swaine Bourne & Son, Birmingham and London (signed). CHURCHYARD: enclosed by rubble-built ashlar-coped walls; 2 coped, square, polished ashlar gatepiers with wrought-iron gates (earlier gateway to W of lattice); some good 17th-19th century stone monuments; rubble built shed (former watch house?). OLD PARISH CHURCH: abandoned 1900; T-plan, with 4-bay S elevation, central door on each gable; rubble-built with ashlar margins, now heavily overgrown: circa 1907 canopied Gothic monument on site of pulpit, red ashlar, moulded arch with cusping and ogee head. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Reference to old church in NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, p.200.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.