Description

1771 rectangular-plan church by Andrew Crosbie remodelled by

James Barbour with heavy Gothic detailing including

hood-moulded Tudor-arched tall windows with traceried panels,

parapet, pinnacles over angles, corbelled large birdcage

belfry over buttress on E gable, shallow S jamb with porches

in re-entrant angles behind lean-to timbered canopies. Jamb

is twin-gabled with 2 large windows; 3-bay N wall. Red

ashlar. Slate roofs with red ridging tiles and axial

ventilators. Low vestry added to S 1934 (dated).

Interior: (mainly by Barbour) horseshoe gallery with

cusped-panelled front on cast-iron columns; jamb screened by Tudor-arched 2-bay arcade, 20th century pulpit and organ case

at foot; open timbered roof; 2 (?circa 1887) leaded windows.

Churchyard with main gate at W end of N wall beside gabled

small session house, latter with blank wall to street;

Kirkpatrick mausoleum nearby bull-faced red ashlar, gabled

and with stone-slab roof. Many good headstones and monuments,

mainly 18th and 19th century. Ashlar-coped rubble-built

enclosure walls.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. First opened 7 November

1771.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796053

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