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Field Visit
Date March 1987
Event ID 1115924
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1115924
About 120m ENE of the present parish church (built 1839) there are the remains of its predecessor, which occupied a terrace close to the centre of the burgh. The remaining fabric includes a portion of the N wall and aisle arcade measuring 25.4m long overall suggesting on plan, a church with square-ended choir, a nave and aisle(s) of three bays and a N aisle chapel or sacristy. The surviving but remodelled fragment of the N wall is probably medieval and incorporates a plinth, a blocked round-headed doorway and window-opening, and towards its E end, aumbries and a sacrament house; the aisle arcade is probably of the late 15th or 16th century. A skewput bearing an armorial escutcheon, and a lintel (dated 1629), are set in the wall of the burial-ground beside the N gate.
There are a number of 17th and 18th-century gravestones.
A church dedicated to St Molvag is on record by 1352. In 1727 it is said to have been '49 and 1/2 foot (15.09m) in breadth and 50 (15.24m) in length, abstracting from the Quire, and stands on two rows of pillars'.
No visible remains survive of a chapel dedicated to St Ninian that is alleged to have stood on the N side of the burial-ground.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) March 1987.
RCAHMS 1990
