Langholm, Townhead, Erskine Church
Church (19th Century)
Site Name Langholm, Townhead, Erskine Church
Classification Church (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) High Street; Erskine Parish Church
Canmore ID 196534
Site Number NY38SE 105
NGR NY 36372 84681
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/196534
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Langholm
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY38SE 105.00 36372 84681
NY38SE 105.01 NY 3635 8468 War Memorials
Gothic church with square tower and broach spire. Coursed stugged ashlar with polished dressings, buttresses, strings and hood-moulds. Rectangular-plan, main gabled (W) elevation to High Street. Arcaded triple doorway in nave with flanking columns, doors deeply recessed and with cusped heads; tall window above with cusped tracery; aisles shallow recessed, left (N) aisle treated as tower bottom stage, unusually tall 2nd tower stage with elongated 2-light window with rose above to elevations. Lucarned stone spire. Skews with gableted skewputts; continuous slated roof. Pointed lights to flanks. (Historic Scotland)
