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Kirkgunzeon Parish Church
Burial Ground (18th Century), Church (18th Century), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Kirkgunzeon Parish Church
Classification Burial Ground (18th Century), Church (18th Century), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kirkgunzeon Church Of Scotland
Canmore ID 64938
Site Number NX86NE 5
NGR NX 86616 66778
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64938
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkgunzeon
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX86NE 5.00 86616 66778
NX86NE 5.01 86636 66790 Kirkgunzeon Churchyard
NX86NE 5.02 8652 6699 Well
See also NX86NE 19 86596 66749 Former Manse now called Mansefield formerly known as Rowanglen.
(NX 8661 6677) Church (NAT)
(NX 8652 6699) St. Winning's Well (NAT)
OS 25" map (1909)
The earliest record of Kirkgunzeon is in a charter of Uchtred (c. 1160-74) in which the lands of "Kirkwinnin" were granted to the monks of Holm Gultram Abbey, Cumberland, for the establishment of a grange. In 1367 the monks were deprived of the grange and the lands were granted to Sir John Hervies.
Kirkgunzeon was earlier known as "Killiemingan" (Kil - St. Finan, Wynnin or Frigidian, a Scots-Irish saint c. AD 579), but no evidence of a Celtic chapel survives nor is it mentioned in early charters.
The chapel erected by the monks continued in use as the parish church until the present church was built in c 1790. Pococke visited the old church c 1750 and described it as old, comprising "Kirk and queere" measuring 64' in length x 17' in breadth, and with a bell bearing the inscription "Kirkwinnong, 1674".
There is a well near Kirkgunzeon Mill dedicated to St. Winning.
J Gillespie 1912; R C Reid 1930; H Scott 1950; G Hay 1957
No further information regarding the earlier churches, The bell, dated 1674, is housed in the fabric of the present church. St. Winning's Well at NX 8652 6699 is a crude stone basin around a natural spring.
Visited by OS (RD) 8 July 1969.
NX86NE 5.00 86616 66778
NX86NE 5.01 86636 66790 Kirkgunzeon Churchyard
NX86NE 5.02 8652 6699 Well
NX86NE 19 86596 66749 Former Manse now called Mansefield formerly known as Rowanglen.
