High Kirk of Stranraer, Leswalt High Road, Stranraer

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1972 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Stranraer NGR NX 05583 60881 Coordinates 205583, 560881 — 1841; E vestry 1895; 1912 porch by P MacGregor Chalmers. Near rectangular plan church; square plan castellated tower. Whinstone; sandstone ashlar dressings. Angle buttresses to NW elevation, clasping buttresses dividing bays to SE elevation; sandstone quoins; long and short surrounds; mutuled cornice. Round-arched windows. NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Advanced 3-stage square plan bell tower. Central roll moulded doorway; 2 leaf timber panelled door; canted band course dividing 1st and 2nd stages; roll moulded arched leaded light at 2nd stage; plain band course dividing 2nd and 3rd stages; louvred opening at 3rd stage to all faces; corbelled castellation. Roll-moulded arched leaded lights to flanking bays; recessed aprons. Lean-to extension and decorative screen wall to outer left; timber boarded door to outer right. SW (LESWALT HIGH ROAD) ELEVATION: recessed bell tower to outer left; 3 tall round-arched leaded lights to nave; vestry to outer right. NE ELEVATION: recessed bell tower to outer right; 3 tall round arched leaded lights to nave; vestry to outer left. SE ELEVATION: roll-moulded arched stained glass lights to central gabled section; roll-moulded blind lights to flanking bays. Steps to flat-roofed porch to vestry; timber door; leaded light; ?1912? inscribed in window surround; single lights to elevations of pitched roof vestry. Steps to modern flat-roofed harled extension to outer right; pair of modern lights to each elevation. Leaded and stained glass windows. Grey slate roof; stone skews. Cast iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: predominantly timber. Organ by Norman and Beard to NE. Timbe

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.