sct-admin, Author at Scotlands Churches Trust

Wigtown Parish Church

Posted by sct-admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Church

The parish church on an ancient ecclesiastical site, largely rebuilt in 1730, was thought to be ‘an old mean-looking edifice’.

Posted by sct-admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Church

Spiky battlemented Gothic T-plan church built 1722, and added to by Barclay and Lamb in 1820 for James Balfour, grandfather of A J Balfour.

Posted by sct-admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Church

T-plan simple Gothic church with a tall square tower, 1910, built of red-harled brick with red sandstone margins. The tower was restored in 2008.

Posted by sct-admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Church

In its present form dating from 1729, the walls house a modern interior of the 1950s, the result of a fire. Cruciform and typically Georgian.

Posted by sct-admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Church

The present church, 1840 by John Smith, was built alongside the earlier church, 1649, now a ruin. A plain box of whin with sandstone rubble walls.