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Latitude: 55.1284 / 55°7'42"N
Longitude: -3.4425 / 3°26'32"W
OS Eastings: 308119
OS Northings: 582505
OS Grid: NY081825
Mapcode National: GBR 49D4.HF
Mapcode Global: WH6XK.2CZC
Plus Code: 9C7R4HH5+82
Entry Name: St Mary Magdalene's Church And Churchyard, Lochmaben
Listing Name: St Mary Magdalene's Churchyard
Listing Date: 4 October 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382672
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37555
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lochmaben, St Mary Magdalene's Church And Churchyard
ID on this website: 200382672
Location: Lochmaben
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Lochmaben
Electoral Ward: Annandale North
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Church building Churchyard
Quadrangular churchyard enclosing site of St Mary
Magdalene's church and many well-sculptured 17th-19th
century stone monuments, including that to Dr James Mounsey
of Rammerscales (d. 2.2.1773) physician to Empress of
Russia; tall Jardine family obelisk erected circa 1843.
Enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls with gate at E
with corniced square gatepiers, hearse house at SW angle.
Following the Battle of Dryfe Sands in 1593, the Maxwells
sought refuge within Lochmaben Church, which was fired by the Johnstones.
Site of parish church moved to present site 1819.
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