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Latitude: 56.0551 / 56°3'18"N
Longitude: -4.4868 / 4°29'12"W
OS Eastings: 245235
OS Northings: 687481
OS Grid: NS452874
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q.QD0P
Mapcode Global: WH3N6.12PF
Plus Code: 9C8Q3G47+27
Entry Name: Kilmaronock Church
Listing Name: Kilmaronock Parish Church with Graveyard, Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 14 May 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339567
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7621
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200339567
Location: Kilmaronock
County: West Dunbartonshire
Electoral Ward: Lomond
Parish: Kilmaronock
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Church building
1813. Classical hall-church with domed stone bellcote. Red sandstone rubble, harl-pointing, ashlar margins and dressings. Base course, round-headed windows; quoins.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pedimented elevation, broad ashlar corniced doorpiece, round-headed door, 2-leaf panelled, large radiating fanlight; blank sandstone panel above, bellcote crowing apex. BELLCOTE: red sandstone ashlar, square base, round-headed louvred openings, eaves cornice, lead domed roof, finial.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: 3 large round-headed windows symmetrically disposed; ashlar margins, keystone. Emergency exit built on elevation to left.
E ELEVATION: later stained glass window placed in original round-arched opening, apron below window.
36-pane timber sash and case windows with radiating glazing to heads. Communion table window with timber plate tracery, stained glass. Grey slate roof.
INTERIOR: coved ceiling with delicate plasterwork over grills. Wooden dado; simple pews; gallery on slender columns at W end. Dentillated cornice. Communion table at E end, furniture late 19th century. Marble memorial plaques to the Buchanan family.
GRAVEYARD: number of earlier to late 19th century memorials; obelisks, celtic cross memorials.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: loosely-built rubble wall with semi- circular coping; square gatepiers with depressed ashlar caps.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church replaced an earlier church. The adjacent manse is listed separately. Gartocharn Parish Church is listed separately.
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