Kettins Parish Church
Architectural Fragment(S) (Medieval), Bellcote (16th Century), Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Modern), Church (Medieval), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Kettins Parish Church
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (Medieval), Bellcote (16th Century), Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Modern), Church (Medieval), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kettins Parish Kirk, Belfry, Kirkyard Walls And Lych Gate, War Memorial Plaque
Canmore ID 30608
Site Number NO23NW 6
NGR NO 23794 39044
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30608
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kettins
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Angus
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
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office:
Rebuilding the Church of Kettins.
Proportion of cost noted in abstract of accounts kept by John Pitcairn, Patrick Alison and George Young.
£226.17.10 GD 150/2639/17-19x
1768
ARCHITECT: Johnston (of Johnston and Baxter) reconstruction 1893
Publication Account (1957)
Kettins appears in lists in various and sometimes misleading forms: Katnes, Katness etc. It was not the site of a Trinitarian house, but the parish church was appropriated to the hospital of the bridge of Berwick (St Edward's) and thereafter to the Trinitarians.
D E Easson 1957.
Field Visit (22 November 1989)
The medieval parish church of Kettins, on record in the early 13th century, stood in its burial-ground in the village of Kettins. The Statistical Account states that the present church was built in 1768, but Smart suggests only that the walls of an existing building were heightened. Incorporated in re-use in its S wall is a small decorative panel bearing a geometric flower, whilst in the late 19th century, when the tower was added, a 16th-century bell-cote was removed from the W gable and re-erected at ground level outside the W end of the church.
A class II Pictish cross-slab (NO23NW 1), found acting as the cover of a bridge over the Kettins Burn in about 1865, has been set up on the N side of the burial-ground, and beside it are a capital, column-base and window-jamb said to have come from Coupar Angus Abbey (NO23NW 13.00); outside the E end of the church, a perforated stone basin has been set upon the stump of Kettins Mercat Cross (NO23NW 2).
Visited by RCAHMS (PC) 22 November 1989.
