Architecture Notes

Event ID 834952

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS83NW 1.00 81407 39873

NS83NW 1.01 8140 3987 Crosses

NS83NW 1.02 81423 39910 Churchyard

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: Alex. N. Paterson, alterations and additions 1906.

The old Church of the Priory, it is said, was burnt by the people together with those who had taken refuge in it, at the Reformation. Chambers, however, in his Gazeteer of 1832, relates that the Church seems to have survived the Reformation and to have become the Parish Church for Protestant worship. It was pulled down, however, as is asserted by Chambers, in 1803, and replaced by the 'present' large edifice.

The National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh, however, among the 'Uncatalogued MSS of General Hutton', contains, in number 66, Vol.1, a pencil Sketch of what purports to be the Tower of the 'Priory'.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Architectural Review, August 1906 (plan and photographs).