Parish Church And Burial-Ground, Borgue

Walter Newall, architect; 1814 porch and interior circa 1890,

style of James Barbour of Dumfries. T-plan neo-Gothic church

with square tower to E wall. Squared coursed rubble, polished

red sandstone margins.

2-bay nave with shallow projecting buttressed porch to S and

W gables. N gable with circa 1890 square gabled porch. Wide

4-centre arched windows with unusual 2-tiered tracery (an

early use of this motif) and hoodmoulds. Small-pane stack.

Tower in 3 stages with intermediate band courses. Single

lancets to 1st, bipartite with hoodmoulds to 2nd, louvred

openings to 3rd; cornice, embattled parapet with squat

pinnacles to angles.

Kneeler skewputts to gables with scroll skewputts. Stumps of

removed cross-finials remain. Slate roofs throughout.

To N gable square plan, single-storey later 19th-century

porch/vestry; rubble walling, embattled parapet.

To SE re-entrant angle good cast-iron spiral stair gives

access to narrow door at 2nd stage of tower.

INTERIOR: refitted circa 1890, timber lined open truss roof

also of 1890 date.

Rubble walled churchyard with mainly 19th century stones.