St George's Church, George Street, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 06/03/1981 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97074 76373 Coordinates 297074, 576373 — J Halliday of Dumfries, 1892-3, refronting and re-modelling 1843-4 Free Church. Italian Renaissance; late Georgian church officer's flat to left (NE) over off-centre wide pend. Red ashlar, rusticated at base; slate roofs. CHURCH: 5 bays articulated by engaged square doric columns on rusticated piers and with urn finials over parapet; tall windows with stilted round arches and round-arched lights; wide doorway left (modern doors) with fanlight. Dentilled cornice. Full-height advanced bay on SW flank accommodates pulpit; low vestry adjoins with door to street. Interior: also by Halliday; 2 tiers Corinthian columns support gallery and roof; pilastered and columned round-arched pulpit recess (modern pulpit); modillion cornice; coffered ceiling; gallery to 3 sides. Church officer's flat: (door in pend) 2 1st floor windows, sashes, with 12-pane glazing pattern; band courses; cornice; mullioned dormer. — Group with 9-15 Irving Street (Item 182) and Congregational Church (Item 181). Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Foundation stone laid 26.8.1843; opened 14.4.1844; re-opened 10.12.1893. 1850 lay-out shown on 1st ed. O.S. 1:1056 scale.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.