Middlebie Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Middlebie NGR NY 21432 76156 Coordinates 321432, 576156 — John MacLintock Bowie of Dumfries. Dated 1928. Cruciform-plan gothic church with low chancel and twin-gabled transepts, flat-roofed porches in W re-entrant angles. Roughly squared rubble with polished dressings. Nave W front has large traceried and hood-moulded window over 2-centred arched doorway (2-leaf timber door); plain angle buttresses, surmounted at SW by 2 dimensional belfry (bronze bell); cross-finialed main gable. Porches each have W-facing door and window. Chancel and transept gables also with traceried windows; nave flanks with rectangular tripartites with simple tracery (similar windows to chancel flanks), quatrefoil lights at gallery level. Raised shaped skews; slated roofs. INTERIOR walls faced with snecked bull-faced ashlar; vestibule screen at W with gallery over, both with applied tracery. Original pews. Transepts behind arcaded screen. CHURCHYARD: ground slopes steeply down at S and E; rubble-built boundary wall at N only. Mostly 18th and 19th headstones, some with good artisan sculpture. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. 1692 datestone incorporated on SW buttress. Former church bell removed in raid by Duke of Hamilton in 17th century, and taken to Bowness-on-Solway.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.