History

Churchyard

About 25 ft. E of the church there is the 17th-century burial enclosure of the family of Corse-Scott of Synton, which was rebuilt in 1887. Its entrance has a quirked edge-roll wrought on the rybats; the head is semicircular and the keystone is inscribed W S 1646. No legible inscription earlier than 1707 was found in the graveyard, but E. of the enclosure there are five table-stones, one of which has funerary insignia carved on the chamfered margin in 17th-century fashion.

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Ministers of Ashkirk Church

Three early names are known :

1258 Richard, vicar of Ashkirk and chaplain to the Bishop of Glasgow.

1448 Master Simon of Dalgles, vicar of Ashkirk and canon and prebendary of Glasgow.

1510 to 1550 (?) Richard Bothwell, Rector of Ashkirk.