Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1972 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Wigtown NGR NX 43544 55503 Coordinates 243544, 555503 — Built 1858. Neo-gothic rectangular hall church with side aisle and tower projecting from E wall; gables to N and S. Lower vestry and porch project to W. Rubble walling with polished cream ashlar quoins, margins,and dressings; buttressed angles. Gable walls with 3 tall stepped lancet windows and oculus to gable apex. 5-bay flanks with single lancets. Side aisle to E with 3 tall lancets. Tower in 3 stages, buttressed to 2nd stage. Pointed-arch entrance to ground; single lancets to 2nd stage; louvred bipartites to 3rd. Pyramidal tower roof with slates alternating with bands of fish-scale tiles. Good slate roof to main church; saw-tooth end skews; decorative finials. INTERIOR: 3-arch screen to side aisle, stained glass lights to gable ends. Open timber trussed roof. CHURCHYARD: rubble walled churchyard with some good carved 18th and 19th century gravestones. Site of Wigtown Old Parish Church (see separate items). Low coped rubble wall with ashlar gatepiers and internal piers with pyramidal caps (gates missing). MARTYRS GRAVE: Square enclosure with cast-iron fleur-de-lis-railings, some missing, tabletop monument and 2 gravestones.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.