Terregles Church

1573 Queir (choir) now burial vault and RC chapel adjoining

plain, circa 1800 church; latter occupies approximate site of

earlier Nave.

Queir (renovated 1875, James Barbour and J Halliday of

Dumfries architects):

rubble-built, red ashlar dressings; 2 bays; 3-sided east end

has roll-moulded pointed windows with intersecting tracery,

datestone and crests; angle shafts with cable moulding to

capitals and to pinnacles: buttresses added 1875: small

lights either long wall; round-headed doorway at westend of

south wall in roll-moulded architrave, hood-mould with

dog-tooth ornament: door has ornate (1875) cast-iron panels,

and datestone above, re-used cross-slab forms threshold.

Slate roof with fish-scale bands, ornamental ridges and apex

ventilator.

Interior (mostly 1875): good late 17th century Classical

monument beside door; figure of resurrection by J Birnie

Philip (signed: apparently assisted by Signor Fucigni) above

central crypt: parapets to latter, altar rails and altar all

white ashlar, (altar on 2 squat, red granite columns with

foliated capitals) with gothic detailing; leaded windows;

open-timbered roof.

Parish Church: rectangular-plan with round-headed windows;

squared red rubble with polished margins. Small vestry to

south, ball-finialed birdcage belfry over west gable: windows

on north wall inserted and west porch added circa 1890.

Roofed with graded slates; red ridging tiles; ball finial at

east.

Interior (remodelled 1900-1902 by James Barbour): decorative

roof timbers with cusping and billet moulding;

gallery with panelled front on corbels asymmetrically swept

behind window reveals; World War 2 memorial window on north

wall; pews with panelled backs.

Churchyard includes some interesting 17th-19th century

headstones: quadrangular enclosure, rubble-built walls; gate

at north (between two buildings).