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Latitude: 55.002 / 55°0'7"N
Longitude: -3.0657 / 3°3'56"W
OS Eastings: 331929
OS Northings: 568009
OS Grid: NY319680
Mapcode National: GBR 7B1L.2Q
Mapcode Global: WH6Y9.WJBR
Plus Code: 9C7R2W2M+QP
Entry Name: Old Church And Parish Church, Gretna Green
Listing Name: Gretna Green, Gretna Parish Church and Churchyard
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342329
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9959
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342329
Location: Gretna
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Parish: Gretna
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Datestone inscribed 1797 and 1909, but S wall may be earlier. Parish church deepened on plan in 19th century with rebuilt S wall, and jamb added, forming T-plan; much altered by James Barbour, 1909 with simplified Gothic detailings; alterations to jamb; S side added with main roof swept over; also fenestration, N bell-tower central above original projeting breast with door at front; W porch added. Straight
skews with moulded skewputts; main roofs slated, ridges, bell tower and caphouse roofs all red-tiled.
Interior: (all by Barbour); open-timbered roof; aisle arcades on octagonal columns; organ at SE with vestry behind; pulpit adjoining octagonal pier to S.
Churchyard: enclosed by rubble-built walls linked to either end of church W gable; 18th-20th century headstones, many with classical details.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. 1825 lithograph in vestry and illustration in Didbin's NORTHERN TOUR, pub 1838, Vol II, p. 443 show former appearance of church. Building sequence compares with Kirkpatrick Fleming parish church nearby.
Pockocke in his tour journal notes (1760) "Gretna Green where there is a very ancient small Saxon Church" (pub SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol I, 1887, p. 36).
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