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Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown

A Category B Listed Building in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.87 / 54°52'12"N

Longitude: -4.4391 / 4°26'20"W

OS Eastings: 243577

OS Northings: 555531

OS Grid: NX435555

Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.5B4

Mapcode Global: WH3TT.SVBF

Plus Code: 9C6QVHC6+28

Entry Name: Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown

Listing Name: Wigtown Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Churchyard

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388980

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42441

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200388980

Location: Wigtown

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Wigtown

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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