Waterbeck Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 03/08/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 24/05/2022 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Middlebie NGR NY 24833 77662 Coordinates 324833, 577662 — Plain 1869. 1st pointed Gothic church with 1868 manse to W connected by narrow link. All built of channelled bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings and hoodmoulds; slate roofs. CHURCH: T-plan, with twin-gabled E and W transepts, plain square tower with broach spire in SW re-entrant angle with gabled porch at foot, main roof swept over porch in corresponding SE re-entrant angle. Tower has gabled louvred belfry openings to all elevations, breaking eaves; S-facing doors; 3 tall lancets in each main gable - those to S with hoodmould stepped to link with eaves - quatrefoil and cross finial. Saw-toothed skews. INTERIOR: 3 S windows by Wm Meikle and Sons, Glasgow and single W transept window all World War I memorial windows. Pulpit (on N gable) has simple gothic detailing and pointed backboard; exposed main roof timbers on stone corbels. MANSE: 2 storeys, asymmetrical, with gothic details. S ELEVATION: 3 bays, the left with single windows and lean-to porch (hood-moulded pointed doorway) front wall of latter on same plane as advanced remaining bays; gabled central bay with plate-traceried tall stair window, bipartites in piended right bay; saw-toothed skews, coped end stacks. Link with church has S-facing door. Rubble-built boundary wall to S with cusped cast-iron railings linking square gatepiers with gabletted caps. — Church an ecclesiastical building in use as such. 1790 datestone of previous church incorporated at S end of church W wall. Published sources such as MacKelviee's ANNALS...OF THE UP CHURCH, 1873, only gives details of previous church. Ch

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