St Andrew's Parish Church, Marle Street, Castle Douglas

James Barbour, 1869; extended, Barbour, 1880-81; chancel,

J. Jeffrey Waddell, 1931. Cruciform gothic church with 3-stage tower

converted to theatre, 1992.

Whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings. base and string

courses; hoodmoulds; moulded and chamfered reveals. Transepts

to N and S.

TOWER: adjoined to SW corner of S transept. Pointed arch door

at base with chamfered reveal, nookshafts and nailhead

ornament; foliate label stops to hoodmould; 2-leaf boarded

doors with decorative hinges. Semi-circular, stair tower to

2nd stage, on W return elevation with half-conical roof and

lancet. Lancet to 2nd stage of tower; 3rd stage with 2 glazed

arrowslits to each face and 2 tall louvred openings to bell

chamber above, each in pointed arch panel. Crenellated

parapet with colonnetted ashlar spirelet to SW angle.

NAVE: 3 stepped lancets to W end, each with blind oculi in

apron with carving; paired lancets on return elevations and

slightly advanced single bay chapels by re-entrant angles,

each with lancet in gabled dormerhead and tall piend roof

breaking eaves studded with fleuron carvings. Gabled porch

set in re-entrant to N, with pointed arch door and lancet in

gablehead.

TRANSEPTS: M-gabled; each gabled bay with tall plate

traceried pointed arch window; ashlar cross finial.

CHANCEL: wallhead breaking eaves in E gable with kneelers and

3 stepped lancets.

Diamond-pane glazing. Decorative cast-iron gutter brackets.

Grey slates. Saw-tooth ashlar coped skews with bracketted

skewputts. Lead flashings and finials to piend and conical

roofs.

Interior: not seen 1990. Stained glass by Margaret Chilton and Marjorie Kemp, 1948.

RETAINING WALLS, RAILINGS, PIERS AND LAMP STANDARDS: ashlar

coped, rubble retaining walls with cast- and wrought-iron

gates and railings. 2 pairs of square ashlar piers with

set-off details and paterae bands. Main gate with decorative

cast-iron lantern standards set on piers.