Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685765

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO23NW 6 23794 39044.

For stone basin set upon part of the shaft of Kettins market cross, near the E end of the church, see NO23NW 2. For adjacent Kettins Pariosh Manse, see NO23NW 35.00.

For font said to have come from this church now held in the grounds in Fingask Castle, see NO22NW 7.03.

The 16th-century bell-cote was removed from the W gable of the church in the 19th century and re-erected at ground level outside the W end of the church. The column- base on the N side of the burial-ground is said to have been removed from Coupar Angus abbey (NO23NW 13).

(NO 2379 3904) The church of Kettins was dedicated to St Bride or Bridget in 1249 by Bishop David of St Andrews. In the 16th century, the patronage of the church belonged to Peebles. The present church was built in 1768 and enlarged in 1878. There is reason to believe that it was the site of an early monastery. A J Warden 1884; A Hutcheson 1894 The old church of Kettins stood in the same place as the present one, and was dedicated to St Thomas in pre-Reformation times.

Name Book 1860