Field Visit
Date April 1982
Event ID 1147452
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147452
Girvan, Old Parish Church and Burial-ground NX 186 982 NX19NE 8
A rectangular depression in the burial-ground probably indicates the site of the old parish church of Girvan. Although a church is on record in the 13th century, a reference in 1696 to the 'new church' suggests that the medieval building may have been replaced by that date. In 1907 part of the shaft and head of a disc-headed cross, possibly of 10th- or 11th-century date, were found in the burial-ground, where they have been erected upon a modern base; three medieval grave-slabs and 'several other medieval stones' were found at the same time.
RCAHMS 1983, visited April 1982
(Paterson 1863-6, ii, 243-5; Chalmers 1887-1902, vi, 538-40; Morris 1913; Cowan 1967, 73).
