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Publication Account
Date 2006
Event ID 1019779
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019779
The building of a new parish church (figs 15 & 19) was an integral part of this residential redevelopment. The old parish church was replaced in 1816 by a new building with 860 sittings in Backbrae Street, which is now known as the Bums and Old Parish Church (NS 7168 778; Category B-listed). It is distinguished by a buttressed gothic nave with raised pointed finials and a battlemented tower; the chancel is a later addition. The graveyard of the former parish church continued to be used; it contains many tombstones dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some of which display emblems depicting the occupation of the deceased (fig 20). The graveyard entrance has rusticated gate piers with ball finials and in the corner of the graveyard there is an octagonal watch-house (Category B-listed), built in 1816 to guard against the activities of body-snatchers (fig 21). The cemetery was extended to the west in 1908.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Kilsyth: Archaeology and Development’ (2006).
