St Mary's, Whitekirk and Tynninghame, Church of Scotland

The church has a graveyard.

^Our records show that this church is closed. Click the arrow on the line above to find links to search for web sites of current churches of the same denomination, or try the Nearby Churches link above.

A church is known to have exisited in Whitekirk since the 12th Century. The parish was linked with Tyninghame in 1761.

The building was badly damaged by fire in 1914, alegedly started by suffragettes, and subsequently restored. It remained in use as a parish church until 2021.

Extensive historical information, photographs, etc, can be found in the Canmore database.

OPRs (Old Parish Registers) are available from 1695, however they are limited, with records of births " probably defective till 1760, the original records having been accidentally burnt" (Prior to the 1914 fire).

The NRS website provides further details of the existing records.

It was located at NT5962881530 (Lat/Lon 56.024966, -2.649307). You can see this on maps provided by:

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• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

There is a memorial in the churchyard. detilas of the inscriptions can be found on the IWM database.