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All Saints Church is in Ashgrove Terrace, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is a Category B listed building [ 1 ] and an active Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway .
The Old St Mungo's Parish Church was extensively remodelled in 1741 and was used until the 1840ss when it was replaced with a newer parish church, built 1843 near Kettleholm. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This church was converted to the primary school in the 1870s and another replacement church, the current St Mungo Parish Church built in 1863. [ 4 ]
St Marnoch's Kirk, Benholm. The trust acquired this church following its closure in 2003. Historic Churches Scotland [1] (formerly the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust [2]) is a registered charity founded in 1996 which looks after Scottish churches which are of outstanding historic or architectural significance but are no longer used for regular worship.
There are larger numbers of extant qualifying structures from 1200 onwards and separate lists for 13th-century castles and religious buildings are provided. As the oldest buildings in many of the council areas in the more urbanised Central Belt date from after the 14th century, a separate list showing oldest buildings by council area is provided.
2011: Aerial photograph showing the old church, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) 2009: Photograph of St Mungo's Parish Church, Google Maps (Street View) 2009: Photograph of St Mungo's Parish Church, Google Maps (Street View) 1990: Painting of the old church ruins, BBC & Public Catalog Foundation
The parish church of Dryfesdale, located in the centre of Lockerbie, was dedicated to St Cuthbert.In 1116 it belonged to the See of Galloway. [3]The civil parish of Dryfesdale includes the town of Lockerbie which has apparently existed since at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the period around AD 900.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." [1]
[1] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, [2] while the archaeological remains of both the Aqaba Church and the Megiddo church have been considered to be the world's oldest known purpose-built church, erected in the Roman Empire's administrative Diocese of the East in the 3rd century.