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Terregles Church
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Chapel (16th Century), Church (18th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Terregles Church
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Chapel (16th Century), Church (18th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Terregles Queir; War Memorial Window
Canmore ID 65676
Site Number NX97NW 9
NGR NX 93048 77020
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65676
![Engraving of Terregles Church from the SW. Titled 'Terreagles. This ancient church is situated about two miles from Dumfries, and belonged to the family of Heriz; the first of whom we find mentioned is William de Heriz in 1152; they were afterwards created Lords Herries of Terreagles in 1443. The title and lands came to the family of Nithsdale, by the marriage of the eldest daughter of William, 4th Lord Herries, with Sir John Maxwell, the ancestor of the Earls of Nithsdale. This estate is now the property of William Constable, Esq. by marriage with Lady Winifrid, sole heiress of the family of Nithsdale. In this building there are the remains of Norman, Saxon, Gothic and modern architecture. In the inside, at the west end, lies the tombstone of Sir Herbert Herries, with his figure rudely cut in Bas. reliev. He was one of the hostages for King James I anno 1443, and was one of the Lords who sat on the trial of Murdoch, Duke of Albany. Near this monument is preserved the remains of the Provost's chair of Lincluden, curiously cut in oak. A fine statue of Johannes de Sacro Bosco was brought and deposited here at the reformation, but now defaced and broke. This view is from the S. W. 1788.' [Adam de Cardonnel, "Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland," 1788.]](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/DP00098458.jpg)
![Engraving of a monument to Sir Harbord Herrice in Terregles Church. Titled 'Monument of Sr. Harbord Herrice, Torreagled Church. Gent. Mag. 1797. Supplt. Pl.X, p.1081.' and in pencil 'Scot.'
[see RAB292.278.]](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/DP00098464.jpg)
![Engraving of Terregles Church from the SW. Titled 'Terreagles. This ancient church is situated about two miles from Dumfries, and belonged to the family of Heriz; the first of whom we find mentioned is William de Heriz in 1152; they were afterwards created Lords Herries of Terreagles in 1443. The title and lands came to the family of Nithsdale, by the marriage of the eldest daughter of William, 4th Lord Herries, with Sir John Maxwell, the ancestor of the Earls of Nithsdale. This estate is now the property of William Constable, Esq. by marriage with Lady Winifrid, sole heiress of the family of Nithsdale. In this building there are the remains of Norman, Saxon, Gothic and modern architecture. In the inside, at the west end, lies the tombstone of Sir Herbert Herries, with his figure rudely cut in Bas. reliev. He was one of the hostages for King James I anno 1443, and was one of the Lords who sat on the trial of Murdoch, Duke of Albany. Near this monument is preserved the remains of the Provost's chair of Lincluden, curiously cut in oak. A fine statue of Johannes de Sacro Bosco was brought and deposited here at the reformation, but now defaced and broke. This view is from the S. W. 1788.' [Adam de Cardonnel, "Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland," 1788.]](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/DP00098458.jpg)
![Engraving of a monument to Sir Harbord Herrice in Terregles Church. Titled 'Monument of Sr. Harbord Herrice, Torreagled Church. Gent. Mag. 1797. Supplt. Pl.X, p.1081.' and in pencil 'Scot.'
[see RAB292.278.]](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/DP00098464.jpg)
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Terregles (Kirkcudbrightshire)
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX97NW 9 9305 7703.
(NX 9305 7703) Aisle of Old Church (NR) Graveyard (1568)
OS 6" map (1854)
The 'queir' (quire) of Terregles was built as a family mortuary chapel by the fourth Lord Herries in 1585, the date over the S doorway. It was renovated in 1875, its window mullions and roof being renewed, and buttresses added. Its W end is attached to the present Terregles parish church, built in 1799 possibly on the foundations of an older building. G Hay 1957; RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911
The stone forming the step at the door of the 'Queir' is a fragment of a grave-slab, bearing an incised cross-shaft on a stepped base.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897
As described above. Nothing was seen to suggest the date 1568 (and no information was obtained from the relevant ONB). The church is still
in use.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 1 July 1964
Publication Account (1986)
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).
