Old Parish Church (Prestwick)

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Old Parish Church

The Old Parish Church is a ruined church in the Scottish town of Prestwick in the council area of South Ayrshire . The church ruin is classified as a Scheduled Monument , the surrounding cemetery, however, is listed in the Scottish monument lists as a Category B building.

history

Walter FitzAlan , the first High Steward of Scotland , placed the lands under the control of Paisley Abbey between 1165 and 1172 . The oldest fragments of today's church ruins probably date from the 13th century. In the late 16th century, the church building was assigned to the Parish Monkton and served as its parish church until 1779. A renovation was probably made in the 17th century. Two windows were added in the following century. In 1837 the masonry was stabilized to prevent it from collapsing.

description

The church ruin lies on a slight hill in the middle of the associated cemetery on the northern edge of Prestwick. The roughly one meter thick masonry made of quarry stone forms an elongated building that encompasses an inner area of ​​13.15 m × 6.05 m. The simply designed church with rectangular windows once ended with a gable roof , which is no longer preserved today. Worth mentioning are the buttresses on the eastern gable side and two profiled capitals . Opposite pointed arched portals are embedded on the eaves . A small roof turret with a bell once sat on a gable .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Old Parish Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 30 ′ 15 "  N , 4 ° 36 ′ 45.9"  W.