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Tongland Parish Church

Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Church (19th Century)

Site Name Tongland Parish Church

Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Church (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Tongland Church Of Scotland

Canmore ID 215036

Site Number NX65SE 349

NGR NX 69794 53914

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Tongland
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Stewartry
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Architecture Notes

See also:

NX65SE 12 69768 53925 Tongland Old Parish Church (built on site of Tongland Abbey)

NX65SE 335 69723 53864 Former Tongland Manse (now Mansewood)

Site Management (22 December 1992)

Rectangular neo-Gothic hall church with square tower to N and later vestry/porch to S gable. Sandstone rubble with polished red sandstone margins and dressings, all openings recently blocked with breeze-block. 3-bay buttressed body of church, hoodmoulded Tudor-arch windows. Slate roofs, sandstone skews. (Historic Scotland)

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Note

Burial ground depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1852). Current extent of graveyard defined / digitized from orthoimagery provided by Bluesky International Ltd. OS 1km map square NX6953 (Core ID 4320309) flown on 18 June 2021

Information from HES (C DeDeo) 20 March 2024

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