The present church dated only to 1879 however the first Church on this site was consecrated by Bishop Wilson in 1714.
The neat well kept Churchyard contains a large number of gravestones dating from the mid 19th Century to the present day and is entered through an attractive Lychgate.
The Churchyard contains a number of interesting features as detailed below:
Replica Sundail
This Sundial is outside the porch of the Church, it is mounted atop a conrete pedestal. The dial has a circular light grey insert in a large rectangular dark grey stone tablet. The gnomon which is metalic and painted black features a triselion ('Three Legs of Man'). Surrounding the insert are white roman numeral hour marks. Below the six o'clock hour marker the following text is inscribed:
THE SMALL AND THE GREAT
ARE HER AND THE SERVANT
IS FREE FROM HIS MASTER.
On the left of the conrete pedestal when standing at six o'clock is a plaque with the following text:
IN 1740 THE LORD BISHOP
THE RIGHT REVEREND
THOMAS WILSON D.D.
PRESENTED A SUNDIAL TO
PATRICK CHURCH
WHICH WAS SITUATED
BY THE GATE
OF THE 1709 CHURCHYARD.
THIS REPLICA WAS ERECTED
IN 2000 A.D.
THROUGH THE GOOD OFFICES
OF FRANK QUAYLE
A GRATEFULLY REMEMBER
CHURCH WARDEN.
A gnomon (['no?m?n], from Greek ???µ??, gnomon, literally: "one that knows or examines"[1][2]) is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow.
War Graves
There are 33 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war in the Churchyard of Holy Trinity, Kirk Patrick in Patrick. One being an unidentified sailor of the Royal Navy. There is 1 more burial from the 1939-45 war.
The following soldiers graves are in this Churchyard:
John Brown, Private, 59, died 30 August 1916
Michael Carrol, Corporal, 25, died 10 October 1918
Alfred Charles Chatteriss, Sapper, 37, died 10 May 1917
D. Cooper, Rifleman, --, died 2 April 1916
A. Edward Corkish, Private, 36, died 26 April 1920
Edward Davies, Private, --, died 6 February 1917
W. Dean, Rifleman, --, died 30 August 1915
John Doyle,Private, --, died 15 November 1916
T. J. Fell, Private, 45, died 1 December 1918
J. Flanagan, Rifleman, --, died 23 October 1915
Stanley Killey Hall, Private, 23, 22 May 1945
Arthur Edward Joyce, Rifleman, 49, died 28 February 1915
W. Keegan, Rifleman, --, died 7 August 1915
A. H. Loft, Private, 23, died 10 October 1918
George Lutton, Private, 32, died 10 October 1918
J. Moran, Rifleman, 49, died 29 January 1916
W. C. McGhee, Rifleman, --, died 1 April 1915
T. Neary, Rifleman, --, died 15 October 1915
J. Nicholson, Rifleman, --, died 31 March 1916
Patrick O'Brien, Private, --, died 15 April 1918
Henry Jasper Oatley, Private, 58, died 7 May 1916
W Rae, Private, --, died 17 October 1917
James Henry Rose, Private, --, 25 October 1916
J. Rowling, Rifleman,--, 21 January 1916
J. Salt, Private, --, died 15 January 1916
James Salmon, Private, 57, died 30 December 1916
George Senior, Lance Corporal, 54, died 17 May 1918
Samuel Simpkin, Private, --, died 29 October 1916
William John Taylor, Private, --, died 22 April 1917
Robert Thornes, Private, --, 64, died 25 December 1915
Henry Turner, Private, 50, died 25 November 1917
Joseph John Williams, Serjeant, 51, died 2 December 1915
William Williams, Private, 33, died 21 November 1917
Jewish Graves
The graves are marked by simple white headstones with the names of the deceased, the date of death and a Star of David inside of which there is an inscription in Hebrew.
The earlier grave is for Hermann Jeschke and the latter for Heinrich Abraham. The respective inscriptions are as follows:
HERMANN
JESCHKE
31.3.1916
and
HEINRICH
ABRAHAM
21.7.1917
The explanation for the presence of these graves is that in 1916-17 Herr Jeschke and Herr Abraham would have been internees at Knockaloe.
Knockaloe was an internment camp for civilian enemy aliens. Herr Jeschke and Herr Abraham would have been amongst the apporimately 24,000 civilian enemy aliens held at Knockaloe during the hostilities of the WWI.
Muslim Graves
The graves of the OttomanTurks consists of a square-railed enclosure containing a row of seven simple white heas stones. In front of the headstones is a white marble place with follwing inscription:
BURADA 1nci DUNYA
HARBINDE SEHID OLAN
YEDI TURK YATUYOR.
-Ruhlarina Fatiha-
HERE ARE BURIED SEVEN
TURKISH INTERNEES
WHO DIED IN THE
1914 - 1918 WAR.
In the top Left and right corners of the plaque is a crescent and a star.
The explanation for the presence of these graves is that during WW1 the Otttoman Turks would have been internees at Knockaloe.
Knockaloe was an internment camp for civilian enemy aliens. The Ottoman Turk enemy aliens were held at Knockaloe for the duration of hostilities.
Each of the headstones bears a single name and the date of death:
Ramazan Mehmet 17th November 1916
Huseyin Halid Ibrahim 16th February 1917
Huseyin Ali 20th April 1917
Hasan Dervis 18th May 1917
Mehemet Ali 17th September 1917
Kalan Yegen 9th April 1918
Ahmet Hasan 15th July 1918
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