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Kirkconnel Parish Church And Churchyard

A Category B Listed Building in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.3882 / 55°23'17"N

Longitude: -4.0095 / 4°0'34"W

OS Eastings: 272802

OS Northings: 612308

OS Grid: NS728123

Mapcode National: GBR 06F4.R9

Mapcode Global: WH4SN.CTYQ

Plus Code: 9C7Q9XQR+75

Entry Name: Kirkconnel Parish Church And Churchyard

Listing Name: Kirkconnel Village Kirkconnel Parish Church & Churchyard

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342658

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10237

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342658

Location: Kirkconnel

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale

Parish: Kirkconnel

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Church building Churchyard

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Description

Building completed early 1731 (1729 datestone re-set in 1923
porch): T-pplan church altered 1896 by MacGibbon & Ross of
Edinburgh with apse added centrally on long south wall,
vestry added to east gable & north jam extended with venetian
window opposite apse, roof heightened then also. All
rubble-built with ashlar margins. Apse has 3 keystoned round-
headed windows (other openings mostly square-headed), and
incorporates some earlier carved stones (2 Corinthian
pilaster capitals, a stylised angel and an open book); single
window either side of apse. Blind elliptical oculus in either
gable; stylised urns at foot of skews and over west gable,
apex birdcage belfry at east with stepped base, bell-cast roof
and urn finials. 1923 porch/adjoins west gable; piended
vestry has door and window facing south, and coped tall
stack; gabled porch on west wall of jam. All roofed with
graded slates, curved over apse, with cross finial; red ridge
tiles; axial ventilator. Interior: open timbered roof; leaded
windows; octagonal pulpit with cusped panels, early cross
socket alongside; some stones from Old St Conal's
incorporated in porch of jam. Quadrangular churchyard
enclosed by rubble-built ashlar-coped walls, gate at west
with square gatepiers. Some good 18th and 19th century stone
monuments.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. In 1727 the

presbytery appointed representatives to "perambulate...

Kirkconnel...to choose...a site for...church & manse".

(CH2 298/2p.73) Kirkconnel parish had been suppressed the

previous century. The first minister of the re-erected

charge was Peter Rae, printer, clockmaker, scholar & mechanic.

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