Field Visit
Date 24 August 1993
Event ID 1149228
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1149228
NY17SE 8 1853 7110
The remains of this medieval church occupy the summit of a low eminence in a copse to the W of Brydekirk Mains steading (NY17SE 70). The area around the church is relatively open and low-lying. Traces of a low bank, in places reduced to no more than a scarp up to 0.7m high, define an oval enclosure (measuring 20m by 15m internally) around the church. An eroded section of the bank reveals the footings of a wall 0.7m thick.
The church itself measures 8.7m from E to W by 5.2m transversely within an earth-bonded rubble wall which measures up to 0.9m in thickness and 0.7m in height in up to four courses. Central to the E wall, there are the lowest courses of an altar (0.9m by 1.3m and 0.45m high); the entrance was presumably towards the W end of the S wall, in an area which is now severely wasted.
To the E of the church, there is a dressed stone slab, checked and wrought with a chamfer.
Visited with RCAHMS (IMS, PC), 24 August 1993.
Listed as church and enclosure.
RCAHMS 1997.
