Maxwelltown West Church, Laurieknowe, Dumfries

James Barbour of Dumfries. Dated 1866. Gothic church with

main gable to street with curvilinear tracery to openings

and to door tympanum. Recessed semi-octagonal stair turrets

flank nave; shallow 2-light transepts. Stugged red coursers,

polished dressings. Central painted doorway with nook-shafts,

on main gabled elevation, flanked by circular openings and

with engaged tall, finialled shallow buttress over; 2 tall

windows; pinnacled angle buttresses; parapet with cusped

detailing; belfry finial on solid square base. Slated roofs,

facetted over stair turrets.

Interior: gallery with decorative and stencilled front to 3

sides supported on cast-iron columns; upper tier of columns

support shallow arches below roof; arched recess to apse

behind organ; octagonal pulpit. Ribbed ceiling with angle

brackets.