Buittle Parish Church And Churchyard

Walter Newall architect; John Graham of Castle Douglas site

architect and contractor 1819. Buttressed Gothic hall church

with tower to N gable. Gabled extension to S to give chancel

and vestry built 1902, James Barbour, architect.

Harled granite walling with red sandstone dressings and

buttresses, stepped at angles. All openings pointed arch with

simple chamfered margins and hoodmoulds. Main elevation to N

with projecting 3-stage tower. 4-centred arched door with

moulded reveals. 2nd stage with cusped Y-tracery lancets to

each face; single louvred openings to 3rd stage. Crenellated

parapet with angle pinnacles.

3-bay buttressed nave, windows with timber tracery (American

redwood) and leaded diamond panes. Red sandstone string

course to cills and eaves. Asymmetrical gabled extension to S

with large triple lancet windows. Slate roofs.

INTERIOR: porch at base of tower opens into aisleless nave.

Seating plan dates from 1902. Raised dais at chancel with

octagonal pulpit. 3-light stained glass chancel window by

Douglas Strachan, war memorial of 1920. Elaborate coffered

ceiling to nave with good plaster cornices; ribbed ceiling to

chancel.

Rubble walled church yard with sandstone coping, pair of

coped rubble gatepiers; cast-iron gate. Churchyard with many

17th century stones. Monuments within walls of ruined Old

Church (see separate item).