What is recorded here
Kirkpatrick Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries rather than a single dramatic event. The structure still belongs to the landscape, waiting for human memory to return.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kirkpatrick Tower as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Kirkpatrick Tower is a medieval tower house built by the Kirkpatrick family, a prominent Scottish noble family, in the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and residential architecture used by lowland Scottish families during the medieval period.
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Places near here
Kirkpatrick HouseCross (period Unassigned) · 15 yd
Kirkpatrick Fleming Parish ChurchBurial Ground (medieval) - (20th Century), Church (18th Century) - (21st Century) (1735), Church (medieval) - (18th Century), Cross (medieval), War Memorial(s) (20th Century) · 169 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 184 yd,_Dumfries_%26_Galloway_(geograph_6169904).jpg?width=1280)
Kirkpatrick StationRailway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century) · 298 yd
Kirkpatrick-fleming, SchoolSchool (period Unassigned) · 356 yd
Bruce's CaveCave · 1108 yd
Scales WoodForest · 1.9 mi
Flowdens FlowForest · 2.3 mi
Stapleton TowerCountry House (19th Century), Garden (post Medieval), Tower House (16th Century) · 2.6 mi
Animals in War MemorialMemorial · 2.8 mi
The Devil's Porridge MuseumMuseum · 2.8 mi
Old Blacksmith's ShopHeritage attraction · 3.1 mi