As you visit Fenwick Kirk I have with kind assistance of the Session Clerk (The lovely Nora Shanks) I have listed what to see on a tour of the church and grounds coming from the Noth Gate (beside the swing park)

Pulpit & Sand Glass    The church was built in 1643 in the form of a Greek Cross, with the Pulpit in the west arm surmounted by a sounding board and beside which stands the Sand Glass; still turned by the Beadle today at the beginning of the Sermon.  This was not as some would suppose to stop the Minister talking after a length of time (approx. 40 mins.) but to ensure that he did not stop preaching too soon!       
Lectern & Chancel Area    On the Communion Table is a lectern gifted in 1960 by the Church of the Reformation in Freiburg to commemorate the fourth centenary of the Reformation in Scotland.  Within the vestry are various paintings showing Fenwick Kirk at various periods before the fire of 1929.  In the vestibule is a board commemorating the generosity of John Nimmo, Elder who gifted a set of silver Communion cups in 1738.  In 1985 a new floor was laid, the chancel area opened up and a new carpet put down.       
Name Boards    On opposite sides of the pulpit are boards listing the names of all the Ministers.  The first, made of wood from the old church interior, is a memorial to the Rev Andrew Burns who was the last minister of the “Auld Kirk” and who witnessed the fire of 1929. On the evening before November Communion a spark from the boiler set alight the roof and the Church was totally destroyed.  Only the three-foot thick walls remained standing and all that was saved internally was the sandglass and its stand.  In a very short time the church was rebuilt. Note the number of curates who ran Fenwick Church until the 1690 Revolution and the restoration of Presbyterianism.  The second board was donated by the Kirk Session and Board to commemorate the 350th anniversary in 1993.       
Laird’s Loft    The gallery directly opposite the pulpit is known as the Laird’s Loft or the Rowallan Gallery, named after the principal landowner responsible for the building of the Church, Lord Rowallan.  This gallery has an outside stair and, in days gone past, only the Laird would have had a key and so he decided who would sit directly in front of the Minister.         
Paton’s Bible    To the right of the window directly opposite the pulpit sits the Bible of Capt John Paton.  He handed this, from the gallows, to his wife, just before he was executed.  Paton was an elder of this Church and also a Covenanter.  Many were the skirmishes he had with the Dragoons before
 
Guthrie Call    To the left of the window is the original Call which the family of William Guthrie, the first Minister of Fenwick, donated to the Trustees of the Lochgoin Trust in 1985 and the Kirk Session was asked if it could be hung in the Church.  The Call begins with the words, “Reverend and well loved” and ends, “Your very affectionate friends and flock.”  The names make fascinating reading.  In 1643 no women were allowed to sign the Call and all those in the left hand column have the same writing, as many could not write and so someone had to sign on their behalf.  The right hand column contains the important families of the day, beginning, as you would expect with the name of Lord Rowallan, the biggest land owned of the area.  
Guthrie was a very popular preacher and a caring Pastor and soon built the new church up.  It is claimed that people moved house and job just to be part of his congregation.  He continued thus for twenty years until 1664.  Charles 11 began a campaign of enforcing an Episcopal form of Church Government onto the Church of Scotland.  Guthrie supported the National Covenant of 1638, which rejected any such moves.  On the morning of 24th July 1664 he was ejected from his pulpit by the king’s curate.  He treated the curate with courtesy and even gave him lunch in the Manse before he left for his native Elgin where he died a year later.        
Cameronians    7th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Pipe Banner was presented to Fenwick Parish Church on 17th March 1996 to mark association between regiment and Kirk which formed during occasions in past when Regiment posted Picquets at morning service at the Kirk and at Conventicles at Lochgoin at which the Covenanters were remembered.  The Cameronians were disbanded on 13th May 1995.    
 he was captured and executed in Edinburgh in 1685.  Look directly out the window at his memorial stone.      
 
Phinigk Flag    On the south wall hangs the Phinigk Flag flown by the Covenanters at the battles of Drumclog, their only victory, and Bothwell Bridge.  The flag bears the words “Phinigk for god, Cwntry and Covenanted Works of Reformations.”  The word King would usually have been in the gap between God and Cwntry but of course it was the king they were fighting. The symbols are the open Bible, the martyrs’ crown and the thistle.          
Hanging    On the north wall, directly opposite is a beautiful hanging worked by Mrs Bunty Bryson and friends to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Kirk and designed to complement the old Covenanting flag. The work which took 18 months to complete was unveiled by the Moderator of the Presbytery at a special service.          
Sentry Boxes    As you enter the Churchyard from either north or south note the Sentry Boxes built in the early part of the 19th century originally built to shelter those guarding graves against “body snatchers”. The Church Building is in the shape of a Greek cross with four arms of equal size, there is an outside stair leading to the Rowallan loft with the coat of arms of the Mures of Rowallan above the door and crowstepped gables and a belfry.  Until recently the bellrope hung outside and was rung on Sundays by the beadle protected on wet days by an elder holding an umbrella.       
Jougs    On the south wall hangs “the jougs”, an iron collar with a space for a padlock, for the public humiliation of those who had transgressed in the eyes of the Kirk Session.         
Covenanting Graves    To the right of the south gate of the churchyard, on the wall, is the first of the Covenanting graves and memorials.  As you walk round the church in a clockwise direction these commemorate: Robert Buntine and James Blackwood, John Fergushill and George Woodburn, Rev. William Guthrie, James White, Peter Gemmel, The Howies of Lochgoin,Captain John Paton.  
If you find the grave of James White try to read the verse on the back of the gravestone. James White along with 11 others had met for a Conventicle at nearby Little Blackwood Farm which was raided by a party of Redcoats under Peter Inglis.  White resisted arrest and was shot on the spot, his body was taken to Newmilns where the remainder of his companions were imprisoned and where White’s head was cut off and used as a football by the soldiers.