Tynron Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 26/06/1986 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Tynron NGR NX 80590 93012 Coordinates 280590, 593012 — William Burn, architect. Built 1837. T-plan, small Gothic church, with gabled central vestry on long south wall, porch in both re-entrant angles. All stugged pink ashlar with polished dressings. Large 3-light window with shafted jambs and moulded reveals to each gable (projecting on north jam to support square apex belfry) with hoodmould linked to angle buttresses; smaller, similar window to vestry, with hoodmould continued over depressed-arched doors in porches: single windows to body of church flanking both vestry and north jam. Grotesque gargoyles over angles; shaped skews. Wallhead stack above vestry, 2 twisted circular flues. Belfry has angle buttresses, hoodmoulded pointed openings, diminutive grotesque gargoyles over angles, and finialed pyramidal roof. Church roofed with graded slates. Interior: timber and plaster rib-vaulted ceiling; panelled octagonal pulpit. Canopied sounding board with small finials and pendants; some leaded windows; west window by Cottier & Co. , circa 1892; north window circa 1878; single window on south wall circa 1912. Walled churchyard enclosure contains some interesting 17-19th century stone monuments, and is entered by steps at south with polished red ashlar balustrade, square gatepiers with shaped caps. — 2 Tombstones, including Martyr's Stone, are noted in the RCAHM Inventory. A for completeness.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.