Closeburn Church

Built by James Barbour 1878 alongside former (1741) church. In Gothic style with a three-stage tower. Spacious interior with an elaborate hammer beam roof supported on foliaged corbels. Pipe organ by Henry Willis & Sons 1887. Window in the north transept by the St Enoch Glass Studios 1948. Font originally from Dalgarnoc. In the graveyard is the smart mausoleum built by Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn in 1742.

Parish Churchyard: Old church ruins (1741), belfry had a bell dated 1606 confirming that there was either an earlier church than the two on the site at this moment in time or has some connection with Dalgarnoc being united with Closeburn in 1606. Site has a mausoleum and graveyard contains fragments of headstones are from 17th century.

Some have also said that this was the original site of St Patrick's chapel although there is no evidence to prove or disprove this, although there is evidence that there was 2 earlier building than the one standing at the site of the old church.

There is a tomb which belongs to the Kirkpatrick family it also contains the remains of Douglas Baird who ran the limeworks and who also bought the castle from the Kirkpatrick's.

There are stories of people keeping guard over graves at night to make sure that there recently deceased family members were not snatched out of the ground only after a considerable time (to allow the bodies to decay naturally) would they leave the graveside.

The following is a list of the Clergymen who have ministered in Closeburn since the reformation till 1872.

	James Ramsey	1574
	Alexander Fleming	1638
	William Black A.M.	1647
	Thomas Urquhart	1688
	Robert Laurie A.M.	1693
	Tomas Laurie A.M.	1694
	John Lawson	1718
	James Williamson	1758
	Peter Yorstoun	1763
	Andrew Yorstoun	1777
	Charles Anderson	1815
	Andrew Bennet	1830
	David Ogilvy Ramsey D.D.	1872

Village	Castle
Churches	Trigony
Old Hall	School
Mills	Chapel
Brownhill	Gala

Closeburn Village

Closeburn Church