Kirkinner Parish Church (c of S) St Kennera and Churchyard with Vans-agnew Mausoleum, Kirkinner
Description: Kirkinner Parish Church (c of S) St Kennera and Churchyard with Vans-agnew Mausoleum
Category: B
Date Listed: 17 December 1979
Historic Scotland Building ID: 13113
OS Grid Coordinates: 242331, 551439
Latitude/Longitude: 54.8329, -4.4563
Location: Main Street, Kirkinner, Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9AN
Locality: Kirkinner
County: Dumfries And Galloway
Country: Scotland
Postcode: DG8 9AN
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Listing Text
Built 1828; Paul Mcclure, builder. Rectangular Gothic hall church with tower to W, small vestry to E gable. Rubble walling with polished red sandstone dressings. 3-bay buttressed side walls with pointed-arch perpendicular traceried windows, lozenge glazing. Squat tower in 2 uneven stages with angle buttresses and string courses marking levels. Square-headed chamfered door to ground, blind lancets above, louvred belfry embattled parapet.
INTERIOR: panel-fronted gallery to 3 sides supported on 4 small cast-iron columns and 2 larger in timber. Wine-glass, octagonal panelled pulpit on raised podium, barley sugar twist balusters to stairs. Delicate plaster ceiling rose.
Ancient stone celtic cross now housed inside church. Rubble walled churchyard with many good 18th century gravestones.
VAN AGNEW MAUSOLEUM: in SE corner of Churchyard. Outstanding 18th century classical mausoleum in ruinous condition. Ashlar, rectangular in plan, with Ionic pilasters keystoned arches and niches and carved armorials.
References:
NSA. SRO; GD 138/2/155 pl47.
Notes:
Source: Historic Scotland
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