St Andrew's Parish Church, Churchgate, Moffat

John Starforth of Edinburgh, 1885-7. 1st pointed Gothic.

Squared rubble-faced red sandstone (Corncockle). Nave, 2

transepts, tall, 3-stage east tower with flanking circular

buttressed stair turrets. Tower: 2 doors with trumeau and

tympanum under gabled porch on east face; stepped angle

buttresses rising at south east to pinnacled cap-house; 2

bands blind arcading in 1st stage; paired shafted lights

under pointed head to 2nd; 3 louvred lights to 3rd;

corbelled, pierced and castellated parapet. Body of church 5

bays with octagonal angle piers rising to finials paired

windows at ground, triple to gallery; additional originally

detailed doors at south east and north east; transepts with 3

lights to ground and gallery with central light rising into

gable.

Projecting session house at west.

Interior: shallow galleries to 3 sides supported on shafted

cast-iron columns set close to the wall, with decorated

cantilevered brackets. Glass by Meikke & Son (1896) (1920s);

Rose window with Faith, Hope and Charity designed by

Starforth; Messrs Ballantyne and Gardner (1902-5). Window

1961 by Abbey Studio. Organ Eustace Ingram 1893.