Glencairn Parish Church

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Glencairn Parish Church

The Glencairn Parish Church , also Glencairn and Moniaive Parish Church is a church building of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland near the Scottish town of Moniaive in the council area Dumfries and Galloway . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

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Glencairn Parish Church is located on the A702 about three kilometers east of Moniaive. It was built in 1836 to a design by the Scottish architect William MacCandlish . The neo-Gothic building has a T-shaped floor plan. The masonry consists of rubble stone with natural stone surrounds that has been roughly hewn into cuboids and built into layered masonry . All building openings are pointed arches with crowning cornices .

The four-story bell tower is located in front of the south side. Belt cornices structure its facades horizontally. The entrance portal at the foot is designed with profiled walls and tracery as a warrior window . In the second and fourth floors there are lancet windows , while the third floor is decorated with blind quatrefoils . The tower closes with a crenellated parapet. The octagonal corner turrets end in pinnacles . Identical turrets with pinnacles sit on all edges of the building as well as on the gables. The final gable roofs are covered with slate.

In the interior, three galleries rest on Tuscan columns. H. Rouw from London designed the white marble monument on the east wall. It commemorates Walter Ross Munro, who died in 1816 . A bronze bust shows the clergyman Patrick Borrowman . The bust designed by James Paterson was created in 1900 and moved from a building of the Free Church of Scotland to its present location around 1960 . The octagonal oak pulpit is more recent.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

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Coordinates: 55 ° 11 ′ 38.8 "  N , 3 ° 52 ′ 20.7"  W.