Round Tower And St Michael's Cross, Crossmichael Parish Church

T-plan church built 1751, tall round tower probably late

16th-17th century origin, top part later rebuilt; church

interior early 19th century.

Symmetrical T-plan church, painted rubble with polished

margins. S elevation with round tower to centre flanked by 2

lancet windows with timber Y-tracery.

To E and W gables single-storey piend-roofed projecting

porches, single lancet to gable above. N jamb round-arched

window. Piended slate roofs to church. Tower painted rough

rubble. Pointed-arched door at foot. 2 small blocked

round-arched roll-moulded windows are visible above door

indicating a late 16th-mid 17th-century date for the tower.

Top 1/4 of tower seems to have been rebuilt in 19th-century

from which time date the louvred openings and fish-scale

slate conical roof with iron weathervane-finial.

Interior: well preserved early 19th-century interior.

Panel-fronted gallery to 3 sides supported on cast-iron

columns. Box pews in 1822 layout. Pulpit to centre of S wall

flanked by stained-glass lancets. Behind pulpit pilastered

corniced 'reredos' doorpiece leads down to tower.

Churchyard: rubble-walled coped churchyard with some good

18th and early 19th century gravestones. Tomb of covenanting

martyr William Graham d. 1682.