St John's Episcopal Church, Ladysmith Road, Eastriggs

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/09/1987 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Dornock NGR NY 24523 66242 Coordinates 324523, 566242 — Designed under superintendence of Raymond Unwin, but possibly by Geoffrey Lucas. Dated 1917. Church in Arts and Crafts tradition, with large squat pyramidal-roofed 3-stage square tower. Snecked, red bullfaced ashlar; mostly round-headed openings except aisles, some with deeply splayed reveals; some slit openings; aisle windows cusped-headed lights in rectangular panels. Tower at E end of S aisle with openings to each level and each face (louvred at top); set-off below eaves at angles; with swept-roofed and louvred dormers; main roof swept over aisles between tower and gabled porch at W end (latter reaches to main eaves level): 2 recessed doors below 3-light window in W gable; gabled N transept; circular window on E gable high above datestone, both set within tall, narrow, round-arched panel. Slate roofs. Interior: aisle arcades semi-circular (brick) arches on paired circular (red ashlar) columns, latter with flat cushion capitals; barrel-vaulted roof with some ornamental plasterwork. Gallery at W over baptistry.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.