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Twynholm Parish Church And Graveyard

A Category B Listed Building in Twynholm, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8648 / 54°51'53"N

Longitude: -4.0826 / 4°4'57"W

OS Eastings: 266433

OS Northings: 554214

OS Grid: NX664542

Mapcode National: GBR JH9V.DM3

Mapcode Global: WH4W4.8Z4F

Plus Code: 9C6QVW78+WW

Entry Name: Twynholm Parish Church And Graveyard

Listing Name: Twynholm Parish Church, (Church of Scotland), and Graveyard

Listing Date: 4 November 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350824

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16986

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350824

Location: Twynholm

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens

Parish: Twynholm

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

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Description

Built 1818. T-plan church with porch to S, vestry to N.
Rubble walling, red sandstone angle and window margins.
Pointed arch doors to each gable, fanlights and hoodmoulds.
Pointed-arch windows with hoodmoulds, timber tracery in 2
tiers. Bell-cloche to N gable, saw-tooth skews with scroll
skewputts, cross finials at gable apex. Slate roofs,
sandstone ridge.
Interior: stained glass window by Stephen Adam 1905. Rubble
walled graveyard, several good later 18th-century stones
though mainly 19th century gravestones.

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