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Latitude: 55.0709 / 55°4'15"N
Longitude: -3.61 / 3°36'36"W
OS Eastings: 297290
OS Northings: 576345
OS Grid: NX972763
Mapcode National: GBR 397T.70
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.JS5Y
Plus Code: 9C7R39CQ+9X
Entry Name: Loreburn United Free Church, Loreburn Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: Loreburn Street, Loreburn United Free Church
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362850
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26273
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362850
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building
Crombie and Son, 1879. Gothic church incorporating 1829
church. 3-bay street elevation (nave and aisles) with square
porches to recessed flanking bays. Red ashlar, with hood-moulded
pointed openings and pinnacled buttresses. Y-traceried tall
windows, the inner at gallery level and below gable-head,
flanking (aisle) windows with deep decorative parapets over.
Porches also with parapets and with pointed doorways. Slate
roof.
Interior: gallery to 3 sides with panelled front, and supported
on decorative cast-iron columns; pulpit and organ at E. Halls
to rear.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
The successor of the Secession Meeting-house in which Robert
Burns frequently worshipped. (Dickie, DUMFRIES, n.d. (3rd
ed) p. 114). On site of 1760 church.
W MacDowall HISTORY OF DUMFRIES 1867, p. 823 and Groome,
GAZETTEER, n.d. (2nd ed) Vol II p. 392 both refer to 1829
church.
B Group.
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