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Museum
Represents a museum
WC
No
EventsForChildren
No
Place
The town or city
Dumfries
HearingLoop
No
IsIncludedThisYear
No
DisabledAccess
No
Activities
<p>Directions: Tall sandstone church at head of High Street in Dumfries, by Burns statue. Two hours free disk parking in town centre.</p>
OpeningTime1
11.00-15.00
OpeningDate1
30/9/2012
OpeningTime2
12.00-15.00
IsNewThisYear
No
ID
Google Panorama ID
11615
Refreshments
No
Street
The street address
Church Crescent
Postcode
DG1 1DF
Parking
No
DisabledWC
No
LimitedAccess
No
NotAccessible
No
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Greyfriars Kirk
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
dumfriesandgalloway
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1064
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Museum
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
current,55.07109,-3.611905;
Description
An account of the resource
<div>There have been three churches in Dumfries known as Greyfriars. Today the steeple of the third one dominates the church and the townscape of Dumfries and the Town Bell still rings daily for Angelus and Curfew. This ancient site was once occupied by Maxwell’s Castle of Dumfries, then after its demolition in the 1720s the Burgh Council built a new church on the site, the Burgh Church of Dumfries. This was replaced in 1868 by the present Greyfriars Kirk, designed by John Starforth and paid for by the people of Dumfries.</div><div>A richly ornamented Gothic Revival building with crisply carved detail, all in red sandstone, its interior is large and decorated with clustered shafts with leafy capitals and king-truss timber roofs. You’ll find stained glass by James Ballantine & Son, Powell Bros, Camm Bros and L C Levetts. The Dumfries Provosts’ and Baillies’ chairs are kept in the church. The church is now the home of the traditional Anglican congregation of Dumfries. It is dedicated to St Bride, as was the castle chapel that stood here from medieval times.</div>