St Ninian's Episcopal Church, Whitepark Road, Castle Douglas

E B Lamb, architect, 1864. Unusual chunky Gothic polychrome

granite church. Rectangular hall with nave adjoined by

narrower lower chancel to E. Tower of 1875 to re-entrant

angle at NE. Porch to SW and vestry to SE, both low gabled

structures.

Bull-faced coursed rubble with granite margins, stepped

granite to basecourse. Window margins bull-faced to

wall-face, polished inner arrisses.

Pointed-arch entrance to porch, trefoil-headed lancets,

singly or grouped 2 x 2 at W gable or 5 at E gable. Granite

corbels at eaves support polished granite blocking course and

granite skews. Slate roofs with alternate rows of fish-scale

slates.

Tower buttressed and in 3 stages; corbelled 3rd stage with

trefoiled lights in roundels; corbelled parapet stepped-up at

angles.

INTERIOR: pointed chancel-arch supported on

label-stops/corbels. Octagonal timber pulpit. Roof ribs

supported on stone corbels. Stained glass by Taylor. Rubble

walls to churchyard with granite coping and caps to

gatepiers.