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The nearest occurrence of Silurian rock is two miles away, near Irongray Church. [12] [1] The Easthill stone circle is 3¾ miles SSW west of the Twelve Apostles. [13] There was another stone circle a mile east near the River Nith but this was destroyed and used for building material before the New Statistical Account was compiled.
Durisdeer Church was rebuilt by the third Duke in the 1720s, to designs by James Smith. Adjoining the church is the slightly earlier Queensberry Aisle, burial place of the dukes, also by Smith, with a large marble monument to the second Duke (1662-1711) and Mary, his duchess, carved by Jan van Nost. [8]
Kirkpatrick Juxta Church near Beattock. The parish church was built in 1798/1799 designed by John McCracken a mason from Dumfries. It was remodelled and given a new interior in 1875 by James Barbour. [4] The previous church was built about 1676. [1] The parish includes Beattock railway station, sections of the River Annan and Queensberry Hill. [5]
Abbey church, precinct wall, chapter house The Abbey of Dulce Cor , better known as Sweetheart Abbey ( Gaelic: An Abaid Ur ), was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1273 in what is now the village of New Abbey , in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway , 8 miles (13 km) south of Dumfries .
Lincluden Abbey, ca. 1890–1900 View from sourh-east, 1923 Lincluden Collegiate Church, tomb of Princess Margaret. Lincluden Collegiate Church, known earlier as Lincluden Priory or Lincluden Abbey (the name by which it is still known locally), is a ruined religious house, situated in the historic county of Dumfries to the north of the Royal Burgh of Dumfries, Scotland.
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The new church, Anwoth Parish Church, was built by Walter Newall for the Church of Scotland. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The cross slab and Gordon tomb were scheduled in 1963; [ 7 ] the rest of the structure, and the churchyard around it, were designated a Category A listed building in 1971.
Ginghamsburg Church was founded by a Methodist circuit rider, B.W. Day, in 1863 in the village of Ginghamsburg, Ohio. As a small church, until the 1920s it was part of a four-church circuit for a part-time preacher. From the 1920s on, students from a Dayton-based seminary served as part-time pastors for the congregation.