Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Monument.

Covenanters' Monument And Enclosure, Windy Hill, Wigtown

WRENN ID
shadowed-spindle-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NX 430 554
Coordinates
54.86876, -4.44739
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Covenanters' Monument and Enclosure, dated 1858, is a classical ashlar monument located at the summit of Windy Hill in Wigtown. The structure features a base course and a pedestal with chamfered angles, which is topped by an entablature adorned with acroteria and stone angle brackets. The monument has an octagonal shaft that tapers and is corniced, culminating in a decorative stone urn finial. One face of the pedestal includes a commemorative panel inscribed to the Wigtown Martyrs, who were Covenanters drowned in the River Bladnoch in 1685 or hanged.

The enclosure consists of spearhead railings that retain a square area around the monument, although some of these railings are now in disrepair.

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