Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church.

Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown

WRENN ID
high-chapel-finch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Built 1858. Neo-gothic rectangular hall church with side aisle and tower projecting from E wall; gables to N and S. Lower vestry and porch project to W. Rubble walling with polished cream ashlar quoins, margins,and dressings; buttressed angles. Gable walls with 3 tall stepped lancet windows and oculus to gable apex. 5-bay flanks with single lancets. Side aisle to E with 3 tall lancets. Tower in 3 stages, buttressed to 2nd stage. Pointed-arch entrance to ground; single lancets to 2nd stage; louvred bipartites to 3rd. Pyramidal tower roof with slates alternating with bands of fish-scale tiles. Good slate roof to main church; saw-tooth end skews; decorative finials.

INTERIOR: 3-arch screen to side aisle, stained glass lights to gable ends. Open timber trussed roof.

CHURCHYARD: rubble walled churchyard with some good carved 18th and 19th century gravestones. Site of Wigtown Old Parish Church (see separate items). Low coped rubble wall with ashlar gatepiers and internal piers with pyramidal caps (gates missing).

MARTYRS GRAVE: Square enclosure with cast-iron fleur-de-lis-railings, some missing, tabletop monument and 2 gravestones.

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