St Andrew’s Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Moffat NGR NT 08443 05126 Coordinates 308443, 605126 — John Starforth of Edinburgh, 1885-7. 1st pointed Gothic. Squared rubble-faced red sandstone (Corncockle). Nave, 2 transepts, tall, 3-stage east tower with flanking circular buttressed stair turrets. Tower: 2 doors with trumeau and tympanum under gabled porch on east face; stepped angle buttresses rising at south east to pinnacled cap-house; 2 bands blind arcading in 1st stage; paired shafted lights under pointed head to 2nd; 3 louvred lights to 3rd; corbelled, pierced and castellated parapet. Body of church 5 bays with octagonal angle piers rising to finials paired windows at ground, triple to gallery; additional originally detailed doors at south east and north east; transepts with 3 lights to ground and gallery with central light rising into gable. Projecting session house at west. Interior: shallow galleries to 3 sides supported on shafted cast-iron columns set close to the wall, with decorated cantilevered brackets. Glass by Meikke & Son (1896) (1920s); Rose window with Faith, Hope and Charity designed by Starforth; Messrs Ballantyne and Gardner (1902-5). Window 1961 by Abbey Studio. Organ Eustace Ingram 1893. — On site of earlier church 1882 F T Pilkington produced unexecuted design. Cost for Churgh hall manse, land-scaping and furnishing about $14,000. Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.