Holywood Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 06/06/2024 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Holywood NGR NX 95495 79655 Coordinates 295495, 579655 — Built 1779. T-plan church with central tall 3-stage square tower on long south wall. Repaired and renovated 1845 and1864-5. Coursed and squared red rubble with ashlar dressings. South elevation: tower has square-headed openings, lower stage originally with door at ground, now blocked, 1 window above; 2 openings vertically arranged in 2nd stage; forestair in re-entrant angle; top stage (possibly 1864-5) has louvred belfry opening with central column to each face, and pierced parapet: 2 tall, round-arched and keystoned windows either side of tower gabled porch on east and west flanks: 2-bay jamb (with late 19th century addition) has round-headed gallery windows above 12-pane sashes. Piended roofs with graded slates. Interior: gallery sealed up to form hall; organ with carved case; flat ceiling, with roof timbers on brackets; acorn light hanging. Two church bells of medieval date from a former abbey church at this location. One bell has an armorial and initials. The other is inscribed. Irregular-plan churchyard enclosure, rubble-built ashlar-coped walls; gate to west, 2 octagonal rusticated ashlar gatepiers, hearse-house alongside, and stile. Some good 18th and 19th century stone monuments: Classical mausoleum at north west built of ashlar with stone slab roof, door with battered jambs central on pedimented east gable, pilasters divide bays: Renaissance-style Johnstone of Cowhill mural monument. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Bells noted in RCAHM INVENTORY, 1920, no. 285. Holywood Parish Church has special architectural and historic in

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.