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Field Visit
Date August 1977
Event ID 1085785
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085785
Alva Chruch NS 887 973 NS89NE 14 and 16
Traditional site of the medieval church of St Servanus; a new church was erected in 1631, and this was replaced in the 19th century by the present church of St Serf, which incorporates datestones of 1631 and 1637. There are no visible signs of any earlier church, but the graveyard contains stones of 17th-century date.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977
(Stat. Acct. xviii, 1796, 137-9; RCAHMS 1933, No. 603)
