St Andrew's Parish Church and Churchyard, Hanover Street, Stranraer

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1998 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Stranraer NGR NX 06427 60674 Coordinates 206427, 560674 — John B Wilson, 1896-8. 2 storey gabled Gothic church with 5-light tracery window and octagonal tower; hall and graveyard to rear; semi octagonal vestry to SW. Whinstone; Prudham sandstone dressings. String courses; moulded cornices; sandstone quoins; long and short surrounds; cusped and curvilinear tracery. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: projecting central gable; steps to roll moulded embrasured doorpiece; 2-leaf timber and glass doors; hoodmould. Flanking 2-light tracery openings; hoodmoulds. 5-light tracery window; square-plan decorative ashlar panel detail flanking arch apex. Cross finial at gablehead apex. 3-stage tower to outer right; roll moulded elliptical arched doorpiece; 2-leaf timber and glass doors; cusped single lights to flanking faces; ?1896? inscribed above light to right. Cusped single lights to all faces of 2nd stage. 2 part ashlar belfry; pairs of cusped lights to all faces. Red tiled spire rising from parapet. Cusped 3-light opening to recessed entrance porch to outer left. S ELEVATION: 2-light mullioned opening to vestry at outer left; flat roofed harled extension; timber door. Hall to right comprises 2 pairs of cusped lights to outer left; 2 single windows to right of centre; 1 pair of cusped lights to outer right. Fleche to roof. E ELEVATION: timber door to gabled entrance porch at outer right. 4 pairs of cusped lights at ground; 2 4-light windows to gallery, 1 to left within gable; bipartite window to gabled hall. W ELEVATION: projecting tower to outer left as described above. 4 pairs of cusped lights at ground; 2 4-light windows to gallery, 1 to right within gable. Short SW link

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.