Sacred Heart Rc Church, South Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1992. Church. 1 related planning application.

Sacred Heart Rc Church, South Main Street, Wigtown

WRENN ID
strange-forge-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1992
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

  1. Small brick Gothic church with apse; minimal red sandstone ashlar dressings to skews and ashlar coping. Slender cusp-headed lights. Wall buttresses.

N ELEVATION: gabled. Pointed arch door at centre with hoodmould continuing as string course below impost; single windows flanking and 2 pairs of windows above in gablehead either side of door. Gabled niche at apex bearing statue of Jesus Christ.

S ELEVATION: gabled bay at centre with gablet bellcote; bowed apse adjoined with half-conical roof. Lean-to sacristy in re-entrant angle to right, abutting apse with 3 small lights under eaves and door on return to right. Blank bay to outer left.

W ELEVATION: gabled projecting (Lady chapel) to right. Nave bays to left divided by buttress. E ELEVATION: gabled bay breaking eaves to left with 3 stepped lights above eaves line; buttress dividing bays to right. Diamond-pane leaded glazing. Grey slates with ornamental clay ridge tiles.

INTERIOR not seen 1992.

GATES posts, railings, and boundary walls: decorative cast-iron, gates, gateposts and railings (latter in trefoil form); low sandstone rubble boundary wall with ashlar coping.

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