Kirkconnel Parish Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kirkconnel NGR NS 72802 12308 Coordinates 272802, 612308 — 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. — 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, schol

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.