Steeple Tower, St Andrew's Rc Pro-Cathedral, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries

The Steeple Tower at St Andrew's Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral on Shakespeare Street in Dumfries consists of two similar Romanesque towers that are now free-standing, following the burning of the pro-cathedral in 1961. Both towers are square in plan, face west, and feature round-arched doors, openings, and recessed panels, along with clasping pilaster strips and louvred bipartite belfries in their top stages. Some arcaded corbel tables are also present. The towers are constructed from red ashlar, with exposed rubble where the church once connected.

The north tower was designed by the Honourable Marmaduke C Maxwell of Terregles and built in 1843, alongside a now-demolished school. It has four stages and features a pair of tall round-arched panels in the third stage. The shallow-pitched, slated pyramidal capping suggests that there was an original intention to add a spire.

The south tower was designed by John H Bell, possibly from Dumfries, and was completed by 1858, when a lucarned tall Gothic broach spire, measuring 135 feet high excluding the 12-foot cross finial, was added by Alexander Fraser of Dumfries. This tower has three tall stages and displays a modern sculpture of St Andrew on its east face.

Some fragments of the church walling also remain.