Field Visit
Date 23 July 1913
Event ID 1087786
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1087786
Within the churchyard are the ruins of this structure consisting of an orientated oblong nave with a central western tower. The church resembles that of the neighbouring parish of Preston kirk and was altered and enlarged about the same time, viz: - 1770; but the original building appears from the Kirk Session records, to have been begun in May 1659; on the southeast corner is the date 1660. Operations were delayed at first by a difference of opinion as to whether the old kirk, still structurally in good condition, should be repaired or a new one erected. But by 1656 the old kirk was in ‘totall ruine and decay’, and the new building on a new site had to be undertaken, which, owing to financial difficulties with the heritors was not completed till 1664. Cf. The Auld Kirks of North Berwick, by D. B. Swan.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 23 July 1913.
