Quothquan Church And Churchyard
Burial Ground (17th Century), Church (17th Century), Churchyard (17th Century)
Site Name Quothquan Church And Churchyard
Classification Burial Ground (17th Century), Church (17th Century), Churchyard (17th Century)
Canmore ID 47474
Site Number NS93NE 2
NGR NS 99264 39491
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47474
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Libberton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS93NE 2 9926 3949.
(NS 9926 3949) Church (NR) (Ruin).
OS 6" map, Lnarkshire, 2nd ed., (1912).
Quothquan church appears as a free parsonage in the mid-13th century, and seems to have continued unappropriated until the Reformation. In the 16th century it is rated along with the vicarage of Pencaithland, in the deanery of Lothian and diocese of St. Andrews.
It was used as a schoolroom after 1724, and later became a burying-place/mausoleum.
Wilson says the churchyard is circular, raised, and surrounded by a rampart and ditch, possibly pre-historic.
Orig Paroch Scot 1850; A Murray and G V Irving 1864; J A Wilson 1936-7.
All that probably remains of Quothquan church is the W gable, complete with belfry and bell, which forms the W wall of a family burial enclosure.
Wilson's 'rampart and ditch' is the old churchyard wall.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 22 January 1968.
