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Latitude: 54.8688 / 54°52'7"N
Longitude: -4.4474 / 4°26'50"W
OS Eastings: 243042
OS Northings: 555409
OS Grid: NX430554
Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.1LD
Mapcode Global: WH3TT.NWDD
Plus Code: 9C6QVH93+G2
Entry Name: Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown
Listing Name: Windy Hill Martyrs Monument and Enclosure
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388981
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42442
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Wigtown, Windy Hill, Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure
ID on this website: 200388981
Location: Wigtown
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Wigtown
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Monument
Dated 1858. Classical ashlar monument sited on summit of hill. Base course; pedestal with chamfered angles capped by entablature with acroteria and stone angle brackets. Octagonal shaft, tapering and corniced, bearing decorative stone urn finial. Commemorative panel on 1 face of pedestal inscribed to Wigtown Martyrs, Covenanters who were drowned in the River Bladnoch (1685), or were hung.
ENCLOSURE: spearhead railings retaining square enclosure, some now in disrepair.
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