St Bride's Parish Church and its large graveyard is located along Church Road and serves as Sanquhar's Parish Church. Dating to 1827-28, when it was built by James Thomson, the church is in Georgian Gothic Style. There's a chancel on the east side of the nave and a tower with four pinnacles on the west. The nave has four buttresses on both the north and south side with spiky pinnacles on each one. The bays feature gothic windows with Y-tracery and moulding. J. Jeffrey Waddel added the rectangular chancel along with the vestry on the south, the organ chamber and short transept on the north in 1930-31. The interior is of exposed rubble and has an open wooden roof, with a gallery, on the west of the nave. J. West Wilson provided the chancels oak panelling as well as the pews, font, lectern, pulpit and communion table. Organ pipes are visible on either side of the chancel. Most of the stained glass can be attributed to J. T and C. East Stewart, 1930. In addition, the life of St Bride is depicted by a 1949 two-light window on the nave's saouth wall by C. East Stewart, who is also responsible for two lights in the gallery. Other points of interest include the transept's, c. 1500, effigy of a priest, and a small statue of a bishop and boy located in the porch. The present church is built upon the former St Bride's Church which was demolished in 1827.
The cache is a small magnetic nano. Hidden outwith the churchyard so need to enter the churchyard. Please be stealthy as it might be a busy area. Please replace it properly and carefully. Thank you.
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