Description
James Barbour of Dumfries, architect, 1872-3, incorporating rectangular-plan 1803 church by John MacCracken of Dumfries
Romanesque style church, with 3-stage square entrance tower
at south west. White washed rubble with red ashlar dressings. Round-headed openings, arches mostly with chevron ornament,
columned jambs or mullions with cushion or scalloped capital
Tower: south-facing doorway (lean-to vestry in north re-
entrant angle) off-set top stage with louvred belfry opening
in round arched panel to each face. Bipartites to 3-bay nave
and 3-light wall head gable window westmost bay of either
long elevation. Porch on east gable with gabled south-facing
doorway. Saw-toothed skews; apex ventilator with parabolical
roof; roofed with graded slates.
Interior: leaded glass windows 1873-1960; west window by
Stephen Adam, circa 1904; open timbered roof on stone
corbels; round arched blind panel at west end; pulpit
alongside and dado all modern. Irregular-plan churchyard
enclosure, rubble-built walls, ashlar coping; plain
chamfered square gatepiers with pyramidal caps - wrought-
iron gates presented circa 1961. Some fine 17th-19th century
stone monument including that of Helen Walker, prototype of
"Jeanie Deans", erected by Sir Walter Scott.