Postcard - Queensbury Monument, Durisdeer Parish Church. On rear: "Dumfries and Galloway News Photograph / This is a real photograph". This postcard is in a blue binder labelled "2008.5 Re: Pte. Arthur Welch 231 & 72 Bns CEF" and "A0505.7 - 48". The parish church serves Drumlanrig Castle, the 17th-century home of the Duke of Queensberry. Durisdeer is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. A Georgian country parish church, mostly dating from 1719-20 but built on the foundation of a much older church. The north aisle of the church is taller and more sophisticated, built for the Duke of Queensberry and remaining from the earlier church. Inside the Queensberry Aisle is the real jewel of the church: the most amazing monument for the Queensberry burial vault, a baroque mural monument and free-standing baldacchino carved in 1695 by John van Nost to the design of James Smith who was also architect of the later church. A riot of swagged fabric, garlands of flowers, urns, barley-sugar columns, cherubs, skulls and pediments, all in gleaming white marble. The churchyard contains some fine 17th-19th century stone monuments, many with classical ornament, including the martyr's monument to Daniel MacMichael and the 1685 monument to the children of William Lukup, Master of Works at nearby Drumlanrig.