Churchyard, St Mary's Church, St Mary's Street, Dumfries

John Henderson of Edinburgh, 1837-9. Rectangular-plan 5-bay

Gothic church; interior remodelled and single bay narrow

chancel added (?1878) with porches and vestry in re-entrant

angles. Red ashlar. Principal S gable elevation to St Mary

Street divided by pinnacled buttresses into nave and aisles,

pointed central doorway in shallow porch, 3 tall lights above

(with secondary glazing protecting leaded windows) with timber

cusping, pierced parapet linked to 2-stage square apex belfry

with spire. Door to S end of both flank walls. Slate roofs.

Interior: renovated and re-seated 1878 by Crombie brothers;

gallery to 3 sides with cusped-panelled front, and supported

on clustered cast-iron columns, upper tier columns with

foliated capitals support thin arcade separating nave and

aisles. Timber ceilings; leaded windows including memorial to

Captain James Anderson of the "Great Eastern"; artists include

Wm Meikle and Sons, and J T Stewart and J E C Carr. Good

(gothic) brass lectern (1907). Organ by J J Binns, Leeds.

Churchyard: boundary lined by continuous series of headstones;

many good monuments, mostly with classical details, some

with pediments; burial place of Captain James Anderson of

the "Great Eastern". Some fragments of Christopher's chapel

near main church door, and 1777 (dated) sundial on later

pedestal. Massive gatepiers to roadside, retaining walls,

steps, and cast-iron gates.