Английская Википедия:Girthon Old Parish Church

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Girthon Old Parish Church is a ruined ecclesiastical building in Girthon, near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway. Built around 1620 on the foundations of a mediaeval church, and incorporating some of the fabric of the older building in its eastern and southern walls, it served as the parish church for Girthon until 1818 when a new church was built for the parish in Gatehouse of Fleet, after which it was abandoned and allowed to fall into disrepair. The church itself has been designated a scheduled monument, and the churchyard a Category A listed building.

History

Girthon Old Parish Church was most probably built around 1620,Шаблон:Sfn on the foundations of an older mediaeval church, and it retains some of the fabric of the original building in the gable of its east end,Шаблон:Sfn and in some of the stonework in the south wall.Шаблон:Sfn It remained in use as the parish church for Girthon until a new church for the parish (which is still in use Шаблон:As of) was built in Gatehouse of Fleet in 1818, after which it was allowed to fall into disrepair.

The church and its churchyard were designated a Category A listed building in 1971.Шаблон:Sfn In 1999, the church building itself separately designated a scheduled monument;Шаблон:Sfn the church was excluded from the listed building designation in 2015.Шаблон:Sfn

Description

The now-roofless church is rectangular in plan, measuring Шаблон:Convert by Шаблон:Convert wide.Шаблон:Sfn It has round-arched doors and windows, and high in its north wall is a doorway that would have given access to a raised gallery,Шаблон:Sfn traces of which survive at the eastern end of the building.Шаблон:Sfn Also surviving in the eastern end of the south wall is a late mediaeval ogee-curved piscina.Шаблон:Sfn

The building stands in a churchyard, with memorial stones from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Шаблон:Sfn The nearby house, Girthon Kirk, is recorded as having been built as a manse by Patrick Blain and Samuel Kennan between 1738 and 1739,Шаблон:Sfn but John R. Hume contends that its original construction date must be earlier than this, and that the thickness of its walls and the arrangement of its narrow windows suggest that it is a seventeenth-century building that was renovated in the eighteenth century.Шаблон:Sfn

Sources

• Шаблон:Historic Environment Scotland
• Шаблон:Historic Environment Scotland
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book

External links

• Canmore listing with gallery of aerial photographs