St Mary's R.C. Church, New Abbey

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/06/1986 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish New Abbey NGR NX 96666 66095 Coordinates 296666, 566095 — Walter Newall, architect. Built circa 1824. T-plan presbytery and rectangular church combined in cruciform-plan arrangement. White granite rubble, red ashlar dressings, west wing of presbytery harled. Presbytery is 2 storeys, most windows hood-moulded, string at cill level to either floor, sash windows mostly small-paned; bipartites in north gable, projecting ground floor bipartite in west gable; low, lean-to in either re-entrant angle (porch at north) beside window in tall pointed panel. Church has 2 bays, pointed windows with wooden Y-tracery (hood-moulded to north elevation), blind Tudor-arched window to east gable, above gabled porch. Brick stack rises above south wall. All main gables cross-finialed, shaped skews above heavy corbels over wall-head. Roofed with graded slates. Interior of chapel: 2 leaded windows, that to north by Maver & Co, Munich, after 1888, that to south, in similar style, after 1901. Cusped wooden panelling to sanctuary walls, and painted Madonna and child, J G MacLellan of Dumfries, artist. Sundial to west on plain octagonal granite column, bronze dial inscribed "John Copland, fecit, May 1827"; designed for New Abbey latitude. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. SRO plan include alternative design with cusped-traceried windows.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.