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Summary

Description

Building completed early 1731 (1729 datestone re-set in 1923

porch): T-pplan church altered 1896 by MacGibbon & Ross of

Edinburgh with apse added centrally on long south wall,

vestry added to east gable & north jam extended with venetian

window opposite apse, roof heightened then also. All

rubble-built with ashlar margins. Apse has 3 keystoned round-

headed windows (other openings mostly square-headed), and

incorporates some earlier carved stones (2 Corinthian

pilaster capitals, a stylised angel and an open book); single

window either side of apse. Blind elliptical oculus in either

gable; stylised urns at foot of skews and over west gable,

apex birdcage belfry at east with stepped base, bell-cast roof

and urn finials. 1923 porch/adjoins west gable; piended

vestry has door and window facing south, and coped tall

stack; gabled porch on west wall of jam. All roofed with

graded slates, curved over apse, with cross finial; red ridge

tiles; axial ventilator. Interior: open timbered roof; leaded

windows; octagonal pulpit with cusped panels, early cross

socket alongside; some stones from Old St Conal's

incorporated in porch of jam. Quadrangular churchyard

enclosed by rubble-built ashlar-coped walls, gate at west

with square gatepiers. Some good 18th and 19th century stone

monuments.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. In 1727 the

presbytery appointed representatives to "perambulate...

Kirkconnel...to choose...a site for...church & manse".

(CH2 298/2p.73) Kirkconnel parish had been suppressed the

previous century. The first minister of the re-erected

charge was Peter Rae, printer, clockmaker, scholar & mechanic.

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