Cummertrees Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Cummertrees NGR NY 14012 66417 Coordinates 314012, 566417 — 1777 church (dated) enclosed by churchyard with war memorial lych gate. CHURCH: T-plan, with round-headed windows (N jamb perhaps not original); alterations circa 1877 possibly by John Starforth, including canted stair turret, buttresses and belfry at N gable (these built of red rubble with ashlar dressings); 20th century vestry adjoins E gable. Church rendered as ashlar, with red ashlar margins and dressings; 4-bay long S wall bolection-moulded wide doorway (presumably from previous church) in W gable, E door (enclosed by vestry) with rusticated surround and dated keystone. Angle buttresses with tall flat-topped pinnacles, birdcage belfry on rusticated base and with stepped cap. Straight skews throughout and finials; slate roofs. Interior: gallery at N supported on 2 cast-iron clustered columns with arcaded panelled front. Gothic-panelled oak pulpit and communion table both probably early 20th century. CHURCHYARD: quadrangular area enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls, gabled hearse house adjoins at corner. Early 19th century castellated gothic Kelhead burial enclosure to E of church; Unroofed, red ashlar, with iron "yett", blocked openings, apex of 17th century dormer head incorporated, plain marble memorial panels on W wall (some of family re-interred at Kinmount): otherwise mostly 18th-20th century stone monuments. LYCH-GATE: oak, with cusped framing and red tile roof; seats placed inside. — 18th century - rendering precludes fuller analysis of fabric. Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Pewter from Ruthwell parish church in vestry. Some walling may be contemporary with W door, v

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.