Terregles Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Terregles NGR NX 93048 77020 Coordinates 293048, 577020 — 1573 Queir (choir) now burial vault and RC chapel adjoining plain, circa 1800 church; latter occupies approximate site of earlier Nave. Queir (renovated 1875, James Barbour and J Halliday of Dumfries architects): rubble-built, red ashlar dressings; 2 bays; 3-sided east end has roll-moulded pointed windows with intersecting tracery, datestone and crests; angle shafts with cable moulding to capitals and to pinnacles: buttresses added 1875: small lights either long wall; round-headed doorway at westend of south wall in roll-moulded architrave, hood-mould with dog-tooth ornament: door has ornate (1875) cast-iron panels, and datestone above, re-used cross-slab forms threshold. Slate roof with fish-scale bands, ornamental ridges and apex ventilator. Interior (mostly 1875): good late 17th century Classical monument beside door; figure of resurrection by J Birnie Philip (signed: apparently assisted by Signor Fucigni) above central crypt: parapets to latter, altar rails and altar all white ashlar, (altar on 2 squat, red granite columns with foliated capitals) with gothic detailing; leaded windows; open-timbered roof. Parish Church: rectangular-plan with round-headed windows; squared red rubble with polished margins. Small vestry to south, ball-finialed birdcage belfry over west gable: windows on north wall inserted and west porch added circa 1890. Roofed with graded slates; red ridging tiles; ball finial at east. Interior (remodelled 1900-1902 by James Barbour): decorative roof timbers with cusping and billet moulding; gallery with panelled front on corbels asymmetrically swept behind window reveals; Worl

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.