Applegarthtown Parish Church And Churchyard

Built circa 1760. Picturesquely-sited T-plan Gothic church

remodelled and raised 3/4 masonry courses circa 1900, style

of James Barbour of Dumfries. Circa 1689 square-plan Jardine

Burial enclosure at E end of S wall has good classical

detailing. All rubble-built with ashlar dressings; mostly

whitewashed, CHURCH: most openings hood-moulded with exposed

long and short worked dressings; shallow gabled porch

centrally placed on each gable, traceried circular window on

E and W gables, other windows pointed; forestair to laird's

loft in E re-entrant angle of jamb. Gabletted skewputts;

saw-toothed skews; belfry over W gable. Roofed with graded

slates. Interior: essentially circa 1900, including laird's

loft in N jamb; pulpit central on long S wall between 2 World

War I memorial windows; continuous string course stepped as

hood-mould over openings; open timbered roof.

JARDINE BURIAL ENCLOSURE: continuous eaves course, cornice

and blocking course, doorway central on S wall, lugged

architrave and broken pediment with crest in tympanum;

similarly treated pediment to pilastered (capitals not

executed) monument against W wall, latter with large

supporting scrolled brackets. Table tomb nearby.

CHURCHYARD: roughly quadrangular area (extended to N late

19th century) enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls,

rusticated square gatepiers to S gate and to both gates on E

wall; gate on E wall nearest church is late 17th/mid 18th

century with good cornices with ogee caps (?formerly

ball-finialed). Mostly 18th and 19th century stone monuments,

many with good classical ornament, some will sculptured

figures; Egypto-Greek Jardine monument at SW end of

churchyard possibly by Walter Newall.