Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

WAMPHRAY PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCHYARDLB16799

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
03/08/1971
Local Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Planning Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Parish
Wamphray
NGR
NY 13070 96462
Coordinates
313070, 596462

Description

William MacGowan, 1834. Simple rectangular-plan 3-bay church

with round-headed windows with intersecting tracery,

bird-cage belfry above W gable, (altered) tall gabled vestry

and hall off-centre on E gable. Enclosed by churchyard.

CHURCH: rubble-built with contrasting red ashlar dressings

and chamfered margins. Square-headed main door (incorporating

carved medieval slab as lintel) on W gable in shallow

projecting vertical strip linked to belfry. Ball finial over

E gable. Vestry and hall with door in each flank, modern

glazing below slate-hung gable head. Roofed with graded

slates. Simple interior, renovated 1899; pulpit at E,

panelled vestibule at W.

CHURCHYARD: enclosed by rubble-built walls with main gate at

E; extended to N in 20th century. Mostly 18th and 19th

century carved stone monuments; Rogerson burial enclosure

(red ashlar with rusticated quoins) with memorial to Dr John

Rogerson (1741-1823), first physician to the emperor of

Russia; Carruthers of Milne column near main gate.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A good 19th century country church in traditional style. The gothick style glazing pattern adds much to the character of the building.

The lintel of the west door of the church is a carved stone of considerable antiquity and interest (see RCAHMS Inventory). It is believed to date from the 9th century and have been part of cross-shaft. The carved ornamentation is similar to that found in Anglian metalwork and manuscripts and the stone is considered by the County Archaeologist to be one of the best examples of Anglian sculpture not currently in museum curation. It has been suggested that the stone may have come from Barneygill Chapel.

William MacGowan, the architect of the church, was a mason and burgess of Dumfries. No other examples of his work are known. His involvement here is recorded in the Heritors Records, held at the National Archives (reference given in Colvin).

List description updated June 2008.

References

Bibliography

H Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (3rd edition, 1995), p631. Groome, Gazetteer (n.d. 2nd edition), p475. RCAHMS Inventory: Eastern Dumfriesshire, p256. Third Statistical Account, p386.

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.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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