Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017447
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017447
At the eastern end of this small parish church is the 'queir' (choir), built as a mortuary chapel by the 4th Lord Herries in 1583. Its special significance lies in the fact that it was erected in the..immediate post-Refonnation era by a Roman Catholic family, and that, with its mixture of pointed and round-headed openings and three-sided apse, it perpetuates some of the traditional Gothic fonns of the later Middle Ages. The existing church was built in 1799 on the site of an earlier nave. The buttresses, window tracery and much of the interior of the choir date from a restoration carried out by Captain Maxwell ofTerregles in 1875. Inside, at the foot of the staircase leading to the burialvault, there is a large slab monument of 1568 bearing a male effigy in contemporary costume.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Dumfries and Galloway’, (1986).
