Methodist Church, 81, 83 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries

T F Hunt of London, 1817, James Thomson of Dumfries as

Interior: presumably 1848): unusual gallery, treated as

executant architect. Built as Episcopal church, with

giant tetrastyle Ionic portico to Buccleuch Street.

Painted ashlar. 2 storeys, rusticated at ground; single

bays flank portico; 3-bay elevation to Castle Street

altered 1848 with full-height 5-sided pilastered apse

central, with tall round-headed lights; flanking

round-headed bipartites at gallery level with consoled

cornices (perhaps altered 1848). Cornice; tall parapet,

balustraded over openings; concealed roof with

small-paned circular lantern. Some decorative cast-iron

railings survive.

entablature, and supported on cast-iron columns; ribbed

dome below lantern. Seating and pulpit now removed.