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.http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200634

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 

 References 

Category:Roman Catholic kirks in Scotland