Anwoth Old Church

Anwoth Old Church
Anwoth Old Church
	The remains of the church and the adjacent mausoleum
	54°52′50″N 4°12′38″W / 54.88056°N 4.21056°W
Location	Anwoth, Dumfries and Galloway
Country	Scotland
Denomination	Church of Scotland
History
Founded	1626
Architecture
Functional status	Unused since 1826
Heritage designation	Scheduled monument (cross slab and Gordon tomb), Category A listed building (church and churchyard)
Designated	1963 (scheduled), 1971 (listed)

Anwoth Old Church is a ruined church building which was built in 1626 to serve the parish of Anwoth in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in the administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is roofless, but much of the walls remain, including the west gable which is surmounted by a bellcote. A number of substantial monuments exist within the church and its surrounding churchyard.

Anwoth was the seat of Samuel Rutherford's ministry from 1627 until he was banned from preaching and exiled to Aberdeen in 1636. The church underwent substantial improvements in the early 18th Century, and remained in use until 1826 when it was partly dismantled and Anwoth Parish Church was built. The remains of the building, along with its churchyard, are designated a Category A listed building; a tomb of the Gordon family and a 12-century cross slab within the churchyard are separately designated a scheduled monument.

The church and the old schoolhouse opposite were used as a shooting location for the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man.