Basic Site Details Name: | All Saints Episcopal Church, Challoch | Town, district or village: | Newton Stewart | City or county: | Wigtownshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | A listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | CHALLOCK.—The new church of All Saints, Challock, Newton Stewart, N.B., was consecrated on the 28th ult. The church comprises nave and chancel, wood porch on stone base, and gabled organ chamber and sacristy. The style is Early Decorated, and the church is built of blue limestone, with white freestone dressings, and lined throughout with Bath ashlar. The east and west windows are three-light, with plate tracery, and the others are single lights with trefoil heads. The roofs are all of wrought and moulded wood, that in the nave being plastered between the rafters; this plastering will be tinted sky-blue and spangled with golden stars. The chancel roof is waggon-headed, with richly-moulded ribs of bold carved bosses at intersections. The chancel is raised above the nave, and is separated therefrom by a wrought-iron screen by Hart, Son Peard and Company. The windows are filled with tinted cathedral glass, the east window and three others being stained by Gibbs &. Company of Marylebone Road. The architects are Messrs W G Habershon & Pite, of London. Mr Park was clerk of the works, and the builders were Messrs Murray, of Newton Stewart, and Annandale, of Edinburgh. The pulpit, font, and wood screen are by Cox and Sons. [Building News 20 December 1872 p490] | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Church | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1871 | 1872 | | Consecrated 28 November 1872 | | 1871 | | Foundation stone | | | 2000s | | Alterations and additions | With HS Grant |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Blair, Edward J Stopford, of Penninghame House | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gifford, John | 1996 | Dumfries and Galloway (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p179 | | Scottish Episcopal Church Yearbook | 1908 | | 1907-08 | | Detailed account of building |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Building News | 20 December 1872 | | | p490
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Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of Mr Antony Wolffe | Information sent to Dictionary October 2013 | | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 19190 | |
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