View of probable fragment of piscina in reuse as coping stone of wall of burial ground, NY 2576 8017.

Description View of probable fragment of piscina in reuse as coping stone of wall of burial ground, NY 2576 8017.

Date 12/1995

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number C 66691 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 382629

Scope and Content Fragment of a medieval piscina, Carruthers old parish church, Dumfries and Galloway Nothing remains of the medieval parish church of Carruthers, though a raised platform near the centre of the churchyard probably indicates the site. A number of medieval carved stones and architectural fragments are incorporated into the churchyard wall. This dressed sandstone block is a fragment of a piscina, a stone basin used for washing the vessels used to celebrate communion. Part of the basin and a V-shaped drainage channel can be seen in this photograph. In 1609, an Act of the Scottish parliament ordered that the parishes of Carruthers, Middlebie and Pennersaughs were to be merged. The church building was still standing around 1750, and the burial-ground contains a number of 18th-century headstones. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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