Reformed Presbyterian Church, Dalrymple Street, Stranraer

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 30/03/1998 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Stranraer NGR NX 06253 60674 Coordinates 206253, 560674 — 1824-5. Symmetrical rectangular plan Presbyterian Church with graveyard. Painted render to Dalrymple Street elevation; whinstone rubble to sides. 1898 gabled church hall to right. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 1824-5 section. Step to central entrance; pilastered and dentilled corniced doorpiece; 2-leaf timber boarded door; split letterbox fanlight. Flanking windows; consoled cornices; margins. S ELEVATION: 5-bay. Single windows at ground and 1st floors in bay to outer left. Door to inner left. Single windows at ground and 1st floors in next 2 bays. Single window at ground in bay to outer right. CHURCH HALL: 1898. Base course; painted margins to openings; rusticated strip quoin to outer right only; hoodmoulds to outer right openings only. Central arched entrance; 2-leaf boarded timber door; fanlight. Flanking round arched windows. Pair of round arched windows aligned above central doorway; oculus to gablehead. 8-pane timber windows with border glazing. Grey piended roof. INTERIOR: 1824-5 section. Mahogany timber interior. Cast-iron railings to pulpit; fluted columns to domed canopy; acorn finial. Timber doors and ingle windows flanking at ground; arched windows flanking at 1st floor. Rounded gallery. 3 windows at ground and 1st floor to nave. Plasterwork to ceiling. Timber entrance porch and brackets to church hall. GRAVEYARD: small graveyard to S of church. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble boundary wall enclosing site; timber gates to S; square-plan gatepiers to left of church. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The land for the church hall was gifted by Sir James Caird to improve the ameniti

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.