Description

1681. Roofless remains of simple rectangular-plan chapel-of-ease in walled enclosure. Random rubble sandstone; polished skews. Blocked arched doorway in S wall; square-headed window in E gablehead; N wall ruinous. Various monuments set into walls; various gravestones within surrounding churchyard.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES: round-arched coping to heavily pointed rubble wall enclosing near rectangular-plan site. Polished, banded late 18th century gatepiers flanking S entrance with corbelled cornices beneath broken pediment. Early 20th century decorative wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

An interesting structure which has retained its surrounding churchyard, enclosing walls and mannered gateway. Of the several monuments set into the church walls, one is dedicated to David Hamilton, son of Hamilton who shot the Regent Moray. Reference is made to a Crosbie Church as early as 1229 when it was granted by the second Walter the Steward to the Gilbertine Convent - founded by him that same year at St Quivox. Following the issuing of a charter by Robert II, ownership of the church was transferred to the Fullarton family. With the Reformation came the conversion to Protestantism and in 1681 a new building was erected on the site of the old one. Restored to the parish of Dundonald in 1688, the church was seldom used as a place of worship and gradually became ruinous - a state only made worse with the loss of its roof during a storm in 1759. Up until 1863, the surrounding churchyard was the only burying ground in Troon.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17844546

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)