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Kells Churchyard

A Category B Listed Building in Dee and Glenkens, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0806 / 55°4'50"N

Longitude: -4.1439 / 4°8'37"W

OS Eastings: 263240

OS Northings: 578337

OS Grid: NX632783

Mapcode National: GBR 4X.Q07V

Mapcode Global: WH4V4.9KZH

Plus Code: 9C7Q3VJ4+6F

Entry Name: Kells Churchyard

Listing Name: Kells Parish Churchyard

Listing Date: 4 November 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342052

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9744

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342052

Location: Kells

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens

Parish: Kells

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

Tagged with: Churchyard

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Description

Rubble walled churchyard with many good gravestones, mainly
of earlier 18th century date.
Some are recorded in the RCAHMS inventory including 2 dated
1706 and 1707 with representations of the Temptation of Adam
and Eve. More anecdotal in iconography is a stone to John
Murray dated 1777. Sculptured on the front are a gun, a
powder-flask, a grouse, hunting dog and fishing rod below
which is an epitaph on the deceased man's lifestyle.
Many of the stones are of high quality with good sculptural
detail.

Statement of Interest

B group with Kells Parish Church.

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