Publication Account

Date 1978

Event ID 1018013

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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The parish church of Rothesay, which lies about half-a-mile (0.8km) south of the town has a double dedication to St. Mary and St. Bruoc. The first mention of the church reputedly occurs in a list of those swearing fealty to Edward I in 1296 which includes one Gilbert de Templeton, Rector of the church of Rothesay, (NSA, 1845, v, 102). The present ‘barn-like' structure replaced a seventeenth-century church building (Hewison, 1895, ii, 233). Outside the front entrance to the present church stand the ruins of the chapel of St. Mary which was originally the east end or chancel of the church. It is possibly sixteenth-century work and is notable for two canopied tombs of unknown date. Within the walls of the ruin is an early fourteenth- century effigy of the younger son of Walter the first, Earl of Mentieth, who died c .1321 (Steer and Bannerman, 1977, 161).

Information from ‘Historic Rothesay: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).