St Ninian's Church, Sanquhar

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Sanquhar NGR NS 78433 09694 Coordinates 278433, 609694 — Dated 1842. Rectangular-plan 3-bay Gothic church with principal gabled elevation to street, plain hall added to N (deeply recessed), low screen wall linked to manse. Street elevation: polished grey ashlar (remainder rubble-built); hood-moulded openings, Tudor-arched central door, gallery window above with finialed ogival hood-mould, tall fanking lancets; windows small-paned with intersecting tracery; parapets, and stepped buttresses, inner 2 carried upwards as octagonal shafts with pinnacles. Square-headed windows to bays. Slate roof. INTERIOR: canopied pulpit above precentor's box, and with steps either side; flanking (unsigned) leaded windows dated 1901; horseshoe gallery with panelled front supported on circular columns. 3-bay hall with gabled principal roadside elevation built of bull-faced ashlar. Screen wall with wooden gate and top of Sanquhar cross (1680) set above pedimented base and flanking urns. Set behind spiked cast-iron gates and railings, latter set on low coping; polished ashlar, slender, octagonal gatepiers with projecting caps and lamp brackets. — B group with St Ninian's Manse. Item No 17. Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.