Middlebie Parish Church And Churchyard

John MacLintock Bowie of Dumfries. Dated 1928. Cruciform-plan

gothic church with low chancel and twin-gabled transepts,

flat-roofed porches in W re-entrant angles. Roughly squared

rubble with polished dressings. Nave W front has large

traceried and hood-moulded window over 2-centred arched

doorway (2-leaf timber door); plain angle buttresses,

surmounted at SW by 2 dimensional belfry (bronze bell);

cross-finialed main gable. Porches each have W-facing door

and window. Chancel and transept gables also with traceried

windows; nave flanks with rectangular tripartites with simple

tracery (similar windows to chancel flanks), quatrefoil

lights at gallery level. Raised shaped skews; slated roofs.

INTERIOR walls faced with snecked bull-faced ashlar;

vestibule screen at W with gallery over, both with applied

tracery. Original pews. Transepts behind arcaded screen.

CHURCHYARD: ground slopes steeply down at S and E;

rubble-built boundary wall at N only. Mostly 18th and 19th

headstones, some with good artisan sculpture.