Congregational Church, Irving Street, Dumfries

Style of Walter Newall. Built 1835 as Congregational Church,

with tall narrow round-headed windows, pilastered narrow

outer pavilions; lower recessed bay left encloses stair;

2-storey 2-bay terraced house to right (NW) converted

probably 1862 to form halls and vestry. All polished red

ashlar; slated roofs. Church has 3-light inner and single

light outer windows, all multi-paned sashes, and

recessed in shallow rectangular panels; deep cill band;

arcaded corbel table carries main cornice; parapet; entrance

bay left has wide round-headed doorway, blind fanlight with

astragals cut in ashlar, round-headed bipartite over; wide

pilaster strip left with blind round-headed lights; cornice

to parapet. Church hall to right is plainer, round-headed door

left, architraved windows, cornice and parapet; end stack.

Interior: 1862; renovated and re-pewed 1880; some later

alterations; gallery at NE with panelled front. Organ by

John R Miller of Dundee, 1958.

Set behind modern iron railings.