St Bride's Church, Church Road, Sanquhar

James Thomson of Dumfries architect. Built 1822-4. 3-bay rectangular-plan Gothic chruch with 3-stage square tower at W

gable; 1930 (dated) aisled chancel and N transept added,

Jeffrey Waddel and Young of Glasgow, architects. All

original openings pointed and hood-moulded, Y-traceried

windows with ornamented small-paned glazing. All grey ashlar.

Tower stages off-set, with W-facing door (canted addition in

S re-entrant angle); single openings above, louvred at

top; simple spiked pinnacles over tower angles and over

stepped buttresses of angles and of bays. Chancel and

transept each has window with cusped tracery below

shallow gable; S-facing vestry door with inscribed lintel,

crest above. Tall aisles are flat-roofed, other roofs

mostly slated.

INTERIOR: (refitted 1930) wall plaster removed, exposing

rubble; gallery at W with panelled front is supported on

square columns, low pulpit below chancel arch, arched

tomb recess opposite with effigy; organ on chancel N

wall; some leaded windows; chancel window by J T & C E

Stewart.

CHURCHYARD: (extended to N 19th century and now to W)

irregular-plan enclosure; rubble-built walls, main gate to

S beside shed; corniced square, ashlar gatepiers with

pyramidal caps; mostly 17th-20th century stone

monuments, (some, including early cross slab, built into

churchyard wall) and site of earlier church: martyr's

graves; tall, Provost Hamilton obelisk erected 1816.