Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie

Frank C Carruthers of Lockerbie and Dumfries. Dated 1898.

Parish Church with square tower at SE. Gothic. Snecked bull-

faced red ashlar with contrasting polished dressings.

Tower. Pair louvred openings each face of off-set top stage,

angle buttresses terminate as pinnacled shafts above

crenellated parapet, latter has caphouse and encloses short

stone spire.

Body of church: roughly T-plan, buttressed, transepts on

same plane as side aisles; canted chancel with flanking

vestries. Windows mostly grouped, stepped 3-light gable

windows at gallery level. Main door in E gable, with

gabletted head and flanking buttresses. Slated and finialed

roofs with prominent fleche.

Interior: elaborately detailed; 3-sided gallery and main

roof supported on tiers of square pillars; ribbed and

vaulted ceilings; stone pulpit; large organ case (organ by

Foster and Andrews, Hull, 1905); leaded glass windows.

Churchyard: contains mainly 19th century headstones, many

of high quality; ashlar-built boundary wall to roadside,

square gatepiers with moulded caps, cast-iron gates;

rectangular-plan LODGE with gabled porch and round-arched

windows.