Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

CREETOWN ,KIRK BRAE, KIRKMABRECK PARISH CHURCH AND GRAVEYARDLB10151

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
04/11/1971
Local Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Planning Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Parish
Kirkmabreck
NGR
NX 47606 58499
Coordinates
247606, 558499

Description

Built 1834, Neo-Gothic aisled hall church with square projecting tower to S gable. Coursed rubble with polished red sandstone dressings. 4-bay near full-height aisles with timber-traceried 3-light windows, with perpendicular traceried heads, small-pane diamond glazing. N gable with wide traceried 4-light window now partly blocked by single storey modern rendered flat roofed extension.

S ELEVATION: boldly projecting square bay rises to roof level with advanced centre part which rises to form tower above roof level. Polished ashlar masonry around door which has stepped-up hoodmould. Single lancet above this, with 3-light blind opening to lower stage of tower. Top stage with 2 narrow belfry openings, boldly projecting band course, embattled parapet with square gabletted piers at angles with cross finials. Sandstone skews with cross finial to N gable, slate roofs. INTERIOR: U-plan galleried, marbled cast-iron columns, panelled timber balcony. Pedimented doorcase under gallery. Boxpews to corners. 4-centred vaulted ceiling. Boarded dado. Fine octagonal timber pulpit with stairs. Galleried balustrade to choir stalls. 17th century style communion table. Stained glass window, post 1863. GRAVEYARD: rubble walled graveyard with iron railings and gates opposite church, square coped granite gatepiers. Mainly 19th century gravestones; that to Captain John McKean of particular note.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The NSA describes how the site of the Parish Church was moved from Kirkdale by an Act of Parliament in 1645, to 'a more accessible and convenient situation, at what was then called the Ferry Town Of Cree'. The church is sited on the Clauchan Croft, and in 1834 deemed to be 'the handsomest church in Galloway' (NSA).

References

Bibliography

NSA Vol IV (1844) P312 and p343.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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