War Memorial, Parish Church, Main Street, New Luce is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church.
War Memorial, Parish Church, Main Street, New Luce
- WRENN ID
- seventh-plaster-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a hall church dating to circa 1821, with restoration and refurbishment work carried out by David Jardine in 1965. Constructed of painted rubble, it features mainly round-arched windows, with some square windows, and chamfered margins. The roof is covered in slightly graded grey slates with coped skews. A modern, pebble-dashed vestry and porch with concrete dressings and a slate roof is adjoined to the west. The west elevation has a single-storey gabled vestry and porch at ground level, with a corniced doorpiece to the south return, featuring an architraved doorway and a double-leaf door. A round-arched bipartite window is positioned to the west, and there are two windows to the north return, with a small round-arched window above. A bellcote with a bell, corniced eaves and base, a curved pyramidal roof, and a ball finial is also present.
The south elevation is four bays wide (1-2-1), with large round-arched windows in the left and right bays, flanked by a flat-coped buttress at the centre. Square windows are located at ground level in the outer bays. The east elevation has a round-arched doorway at ground level, with a round-arched window above. The north elevation is three bays wide, featuring round-arched windows in the outer bays and a mural tablet dated 1756 at ground level, with a square window above.
The interior is an oblong hall with painted plaster walls and boarded dadoes. It has a coomed ceiling and a delicate plaster rose. The features include a modern pulpit, a timber communion table, and a modern vestibule advanced to the west. A marble mural tablet is set into the north wall. Simple coloured and watered glass patterns decorate the geometric-pane leaded glazing.
The graveyard contains some fine 18th-century monuments and mainly 19th-century monuments. The graveyard walls are of rubble construction, incorporating rubble coping. Square rubble gatepiers stand to the west, featuring red sandstone pyramidal capping, built as a continuation of the wall, and simple double-leaf iron gates. The war memorial is set into a recess in the west wall, to the south of the gates. A piece of gravestone is incorporated into the wall to the north.
The war memorial itself, dating to circa 1919, is a Celtic cross crafted from ashlar. It consists of a simple Celtic cross set upon a pedestal. The base of the cross is inscribed with "1914 - 1918." The west face of the pedestal is inscribed with "To the glory of God and in loving memory of the men connected with this parish who fell in the Great War," along with a list of names. A stepped platform supports a canted ashlar wall set behind, recessed into the graveyard; the rear wall is inscribed "Their name liveth for evermore.”
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