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Tundergarth Parish Church

A Category B Listed Building in Annandale North, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.1146 / 55°6'52"N

Longitude: -3.2949 / 3°17'41"W

OS Eastings: 317503

OS Northings: 580787

OS Grid: NY175807

Mapcode National: GBR 59F9.GC

Mapcode Global: WH6XM.CP8Y

Plus Code: 9C7R4P74+R3

Entry Name: Tundergarth Parish Church

Listing Name: Tundergarth Parish Church, Churchyard Walls and Gatepiers and Shell of Former Parish Church (Church of Scotland)

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350744

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16916

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350744

Location: Tundergarth

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale North

Parish: Tundergarth

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Reference to old

church in NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, p.200.

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