Crossmichael Parish Church, Round Tower And St Michael's Cross (original) (raw)
Burial Ground (18th Century), Church (18th Century), Churchyard (18th Century), Tower (16th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Digital Images
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Crossmichael Parish Church, Round Tower And St Michael's Cross, NX76NW 8, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
SC 2579185
Detail of carved panel on William and Robert Gordons burial vault.
2/12/1988
© RCAHMS
DP 104748
Oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Parish Church, taken from the SE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
15/8/2011
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2466833
Crossmichael Parish Church, Round Tower And St Michael's Cross, NX76NW 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
DP 090753
General oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Village, taken from the NNW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
6/7/2010
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2466835
Crossmichael Parish Church, Round Tower And St Michael's Cross, NX76NW 8, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 2, Verso
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
DP 104743
Oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Parish Church, taken from the NE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
15/8/2011
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 104746
Oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Parish Church, taken from the SW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
15/8/2011
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2223765
Photographs and research notes relating to graveyard monuments in Crossmichael Churchyard, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
© HES (Betty Willsher Collection)
DP 104745
Oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Parish Church, taken from the WSW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
15/8/2011
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 104747
Oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Parish Church, taken from the SSE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
15/8/2011
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 104744
Oblique aerial view of Crossmichael Parish Church, taken from the N.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
15/8/2011
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2223767
Photographs and research notes relating to graveyard monuments in Crossmichael Churchyard, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
© HES (Betty Willsher Collection)
Collections
Administrative Areas
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Crossmichael
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Archaeology Notes
NX76NW 8.00 72977 66985
(NX 7297 6698) Church (NAT)
OS 6" map (1958).
NX76NW 8.01 NX 72994 66978 Gordon Memorial Vault (in burial-ground)
On the south side of the modern church is a round tower with a pointed roof. The church hall is dated 1611, and a burial vault of the Gordons of Aird, in the church yard bears the date 1629.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911.
Crossmichael parish church was dedicated to St Michael and belonged to Sweetheart Abbey. Beside the church stood of old St Michael's Cross at which every year was held the Michaelmas Fair of Crossmichael. The fair has lasted on into modern times but the cross has long since gone. The church was rebuilt in 1751.
H Scott 1917.
Crossmichael Church is in normal use, and incorporates a round tower of earlier, PN, work. The barrel-vaulted burial vault, is intact but is now used as a tool-store.
No information was found concerning St Michael's Cross.
Visited by OS (WDJ), 13 August 1968.
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