Round Tower and St Michael's Cross, Crossmichael Parish Church

The knoll on which the church stands is probably the site of an ancient place of worship. The oldest part of the current building is the tower, which is seventeenth-century, possibly as old as the 1611 bell (made by John Burgerhuys) that hangs in it. The church's main block was built in 1749–1751, on the site of an older building. In 1822–1823, David McLellan designed and built the north extension; in 1824–1825, John Graham and William Laurie heightened the tower; the tower's present conical roof was most probably added while alterations were being made in 1880–81 by John Starforth. In 1971, the church was designated a Category A listed building. In 1990, the Gordon memorial was given its…

Crossmichael Parish Church and its burial ground lie on a knoll at the north end of Crossmichael's Main Street. Built of painted whinstone rubble, it has a piend-roofed main block, with an extension (also piend-roofed) in the middle of the north wall, resulting in a T-plan. In the middle of the south wall is a slender circular tower, with a conical slate roof. It has tall lancet windows. The church retains an unusually complete Georgian interior dating from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. There are raised galleries on Tuscan columns, and box pews, some named for important local heritors including the Gordons of Kenmure and the Copelands of Danevale. Two of the windows have…