Carsphairn Churchyard is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Churchyard, mausoleum.

Carsphairn Churchyard

WRENN ID: riven-terrace-khaki
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 4 November 1971
Type: Churchyard, mausoleum
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Rubble walled churchyard with many good late 17th/early 18th

century carved gravestones. The McAdam mausoleum 1838: square

rubble walled burial enclosure; bolection moulded eaves band,

flat coping. Small central pediment over entrance with iron

grille gate. Inscription in tympanum records this as the

burial place of the McAdams of Waterhead, ancestors of John

Loudon McAdam, roadmaker. Inside an heraldic panel,

presumably of 17th/18th century date is resited within a 19th

century architrave, the lintel of which is dated 1838.

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