St Mary's R.C. Church, New Abbey

Walter Newall, architect. Built circa 1824. T-plan presbytery

and rectangular church combined in cruciform-plan

arrangement. White granite rubble, red ashlar dressings, west

wing of presbytery harled. Presbytery is 2 storeys, most

windows hood-moulded, string at cill level to either floor,

sash windows mostly small-paned; bipartites in north gable,

projecting ground floor bipartite in west gable; low, lean-to

in either re-entrant angle (porch at north) beside window in

tall pointed panel.

Church has 2 bays, pointed windows with wooden Y-tracery

(hood-moulded to north elevation), blind Tudor-arched window

to east gable, above gabled porch. Brick stack rises above

south wall. All main gables cross-finialed, shaped skews

above heavy corbels over wall-head. Roofed with graded

slates.

Interior of chapel: 2 leaded windows, that to north by Maver

& Co, Munich, after 1888, that to south, in similar style,

after 1901.

Cusped wooden panelling to sanctuary walls, and painted

Madonna and child, J G MacLellan of Dumfries, artist. Sundial

to west on plain octagonal granite column, bronze dial

inscribed "John Copland, fecit, May 1827"; designed for New

Abbey latitude.