Colmonell, Manse Road, Colmonell Parish Church
Church (19th Century), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Colmonell, Manse Road, Colmonell Parish Church
Classification Church (19th Century), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 5a Manse Road, Colmonell Kirk; War Memorial Roll Of Honour, War Memorial Plaque, War Memorial Window, War Memorial Font, War Memorial Communion Table
Canmore ID 61974
Site Number NX18NW 25
NGR NX 14473 85790
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61974
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Colmonell
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX18NW 25.00 14464 85785
NX18NW 25.01 14442 85776 Churchyard
The grave of Matthew McIlwraith, a Covenanter executed by order of Claverhouse in 1685, is in the burial-ground.
J H Thomson 1903
NMRS REFERENCE:
Architect: Sir Robert Lorimer, (alterations etc. 1899).
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Plans: at Darley Hay Partnership, Ayr.
SRO
Repair of Kirk, Entreaty from Heritors to Lord Bargany.
1692 GD109/3924
Repair of the Church.
Plea from the Heritors to Lord Bargany to have the Church repaired.
Letter.
1692 GD109/3924
Field Visit (July 1981)
Colmonell, Parish Church and Burial-ground NX 144 857 NX18NW
There was a church here by 1179 although the existing building is of late 18th and 19th century date. The 'old church', which bore the date 1591, was taken down in 1772 and the datestone is incorporated in the present church.
RCAHMS 1981, visited July 1981
(Paterson, 1863-6, ii, 127-9; Chalmers 1887-1902, vi, 541-2; Cowan 1967, 34)
