High Kirk, Dunoon
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| location = Dunoon, Argyll and Bute
| country = Scotland, United Kingdom
| denomination = Church of Scotland
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| website = [https://cowalkirk.org.uk/churches/high-kirk/ Cowal Kirk Website]
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| heritage designation = Category B listed building
| designated date = 20 July 1971
| architect = James Gillespie Graham
| architectural type = Gothic revival
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| years built = 1816
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High Kirk, also known as the Old Parish Church, is a Church of Scotland church building in Dunoon, Cowal, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located on Kirk Street, just south of the town centre. Constructed in the Gothic revival style, it is a Category B listed building.[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB26429 DUNOON HIGH KIRK (OLD PARISH CHURCH), KIRK STREET, CHURCH OF SCOTLAND] - Historic Environment Scotland After being scheduled for closure,{{Cite web|url=https://cowalkirk.org.uk/high-kirk-closure-local-vote-on-16-april-2023/|title=High Kirk Closure – Local vote on 16 April 2023 | Cowal Kirk|first=Cowal|last=Kirk}} the final service was held at the church on 1 October 2023.{{Cite web |last=Kirk |first=Cowal |title=High Kirk Book – Final Service 1 October {{!}} Cowal Kirk |url=https://cowalkirk.org.uk/high-kirk-book-final-service-1-october/ |access-date=2023-10-01 |language=en-GB}}
History
The church was completed in 1816, to a design by architect James Gillespie Graham of Edinburgh, built near the site of an earlier, 15th-century parish church, the Bishop's Palace, which became the Cathedral Church of both the Roman Catholic and Episcopalian Bishops of Argyll.[https://scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/dunoon-high-kirk/ Dunoon High Kirk] at Scotland's Churches Trust In the late 18th century, this building became dilapidated and was demolished, and the stone used to build the current incarnation. It was enlarged in 1834 by David Hamilton of Glasgow. Five years later, the church's tower, which is in three stages, was raised by eight feet. It has a clock, presented by William Campbell, on each of its four sides. In 1909, Andrew Balfour lengthened and widened the church. The 1939 chancel window is by Douglas Hamilton.
Graveyard
The church's graveyard contains gravestones dating from the 13th century. Also interred here are bishops Andrew Boyd, John Cameron (d. 1623)[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZrGM8n_uNOcC&pg=GBS.PP1 Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland], Frances Hindes Groome (1901), p. 444 and Hector McLean.[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_COLEGATE_Colegate_s_Guide_to_Dunoon_Kirn_and?id=AR5bAAAAcAAJ Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay (Second edition)] - John Colegate (1868), page 8
See also
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References
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External links
- [https://cowalkirk.org.uk/churches/high-kirk/ Cowal Kirk Website]
- [https://scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/dunoon-high-kirk/ Scotland's Churches Trust website]
- [https://i2.wp.com/www.dalmadan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/LA-Dunoon-Studio.jpg?ssl=1 A 19th-century view of the church]
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Category:Category B listed buildings in Argyll and Bute
Category:Listed churches in Scotland