The Sacred Heart Church

The Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic kirk locatit in Wigtoun on Sooth Main Street. It is a kirk o the Roman Catholic Diocese o Gallowa. A Gothic early Inglis style, brick kirk bi Edinburgh airchitect John Garden Brown biggit in 1879. Cruciform wi a bellcote on the sooth gable, it consists o a nave, apse, north an sooth transepts, sacristy an seats aboot 300. The altar wis made bi M. Poussielgue-Rusand, o Paris. The tot cost o the building wis aboot £1,500. The fower lancet windaes oan the facade support a niche containing a statue o the Lord Jesus Christ. The kirk is yin o anly twa biggins, baith kirks, kennt tae hae been biggit bi the architect, whae deid age 27. The kirk is forby uist as a venue throu the Wigtown Book Festival. It is listed Category C(S) Offeecial Wabsteid http://www.rckirkcudbright.org.uk/wigtown/4589659879 Archived 2019-08-25 at the Wayback Machine References