Troqueer Parish Church, Troqueer Road, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - 277 Date Added 06/03/1981 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 97434 75074 Coordinates 297434, 575074 — 1771 rectangular-plan church by Andrew Crosbie remodelled by James Barbour with heavy Gothic detailing including hood-moulded Tudor-arched tall windows with traceried panels, parapet, pinnacles over angles, corbelled large birdcage belfry over buttress on E gable, shallow S jamb with porches in re-entrant angles behind lean-to timbered canopies. Jamb is twin-gabled with 2 large windows; 3-bay N wall. Red ashlar. Slate roofs with red ridging tiles and axial ventilators. Low vestry added to S 1934 (dated). Interior: (mainly by Barbour) horseshoe gallery with cusped-panelled front on cast-iron columns; jamb screened by Tudor-arched 2-bay arcade, 20th century pulpit and organ case at foot; open timbered roof; 2 (?circa 1887) leaded windows. Churchyard with main gate at W end of N wall beside gabled small session house, latter with blank wall to street; Kirkpatrick mausoleum nearby bull-faced red ashlar, gabled and with stone-slab roof. Many good headstones and monuments, mainly 18th and 19th century. Ashlar-coped rubble-built enclosure walls. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. First opened 7 November 1771.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.