Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Lockerbie NGR NY 13561 81855 Coordinates 313561, 581855 — 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.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.