St Ninian's Church, Sanquhar

Dated 1842. Rectangular-plan 3-bay Gothic church with

principal gabled elevation to street, plain hall added to N

(deeply recessed), low screen wall linked to manse. Street

elevation: polished grey ashlar (remainder rubble-built);

hood-moulded openings, Tudor-arched central door, gallery

window above with finialed ogival hood-mould, tall fanking

lancets; windows small-paned with intersecting tracery;

parapets, and stepped buttresses, inner 2 carried upwards as

octagonal shafts with pinnacles. Square-headed windows to

bays. Slate roof.

INTERIOR: canopied pulpit above precentor's box, and with

steps either side; flanking (unsigned) leaded windows dated

1901; horseshoe gallery with panelled front supported on

circular columns. 3-bay hall with gabled principal roadside

elevation built of bull-faced ashlar. Screen wall with wooden

gate and top of Sanquhar cross (1680) set above pedimented

base and flanking urns. Set behind spiked cast-iron gates and

railings, latter set on low coping; polished ashlar, slender,

octagonal gatepiers with projecting caps and lamp brackets.