Caerlaverock Parish Church And Churchyard

Dated 1781. T-plan church, re-roofed and renovated 1894 with

piended small porch added to east and to west gables, James

Barbour of Dumfries, achitect. Coursed and squared red

rubble with ashlar dressings. Keystoned round-headed

windows: 4-bay long south wall has wide outer bays. Door with

consoled pediment and oculus above in north gable (other

gables originally identical) and ball-finialed apex birdcage

belfry. Lean-to in re-entrant angle. All roofed with

graded slates; red ridge tiles. Galleried interior.

L-plan churchyard, rubble built walls, ball-finialed square,

red ashlar gate-piers to south: gabled former hearse house:

some good 17th-19th century stone monuments, including that

of Robert Paterson, prototype of Sir Walter Scott's "Old

Mortality".