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Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown

A Category B Listed Building in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8688 / 54°52'7"N

Longitude: -4.4474 / 4°26'50"W

OS Eastings: 243042

OS Northings: 555409

OS Grid: NX430554

Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.1LD

Mapcode Global: WH3TT.NWDD

Plus Code: 9C6QVH93+G2

Entry Name: Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown

Listing Name: Windy Hill Martyrs Monument and Enclosure

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388981

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42442

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200388981

Location: Wigtown

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Wigtown

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Dated 1858. Classical ashlar monument sited on summit of hill. Base course; pedestal with chamfered angles capped by entablature with acroteria and stone angle brackets. Octagonal shaft, tapering and corniced, bearing decorative stone urn finial. Commemorative panel on 1 face of pedestal inscribed to Wigtown Martyrs, Covenanters who were drowned in the River Bladnoch (1685), or were hung.

ENCLOSURE: spearhead railings retaining square enclosure, some now in disrepair.

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