Reference

Date 1996

Event ID 923111

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923111

Gretna parish church, Gretna Green. T-plan kirk of sneck-harled red sandstone rubble, built in 1789-90 but transformed into a lumpy Gothic edifice in 1909-10 by James Barbour. He thickened the main block with the addition of a S aisle, almost swallowing up the 18th-century jamb, blocked the gable doors and provided new windows throughout. Also by Barbour is the E side's slim bell tower, a red-tiled spire rising within the battlement, a spired caphouse, again red-tiled, at its NW corner.

To the NW of the church, a large monument of c. 1840 to members of the Weild family, topped by four blunt obelisks, two carved with coats of arms.

J Gifford 1996.