St Bride's Anglican Church (former Greyfriars' Church), Church Crescent, Dumfries

John Starforth, 1866-8. Decorated gothic church. Complex plan and roof-lines, basically T-plan with subsidiary elements filling angles; buttressed four-stage square entrance tower, with steeples, abuts jamb at south. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings; pointed openings, some with curvilinear tracery; some richly-sculptured detail.

Tower: double doorway with trumeau, figure in carved tympanum, ogee hood-mould rising into blank arcading; belfry stage with three traceried lights within overarch, lucarned stone broach spire. Curved, buttressed and pinnacled stair turrets flank tower angles, tall crocketted pinnacles at junction of main roof. Steep-pitched canted gables in re-entrant angles with traceried ground floor windows; central door in east and west gables. Slated principal and subordinate roofs, pavilion-roofed bays to east and to west with iron brattishing. Partly enclosed by red ashlar walls with iron railings.

Interior: three galleries, supported on clustered cast-iron columns; open timbered roof on stone corbels (some sculptured) and with stencilled ornament; tiered panelled reredos; leaded windows - artists include, Powell brothers, Leeds, circa 1882, James Ballantine & Son, Camm brothers, 1879, L C Levetts, 1970.