Field Visit
Date October 1985
Event ID 1156441
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156441
St Quivox, Parish Church and Burial-ground NS 3751 2406 NS32SE 5
This T-plan.church stands within its walled burial-ground and occupies a prominent position in the village of St Ouivox. It is rectangular on plan (18.85m by 5.9m within walls 1m thick) and gable-ended; although the visible fabric is largely of 17th-century date (with 18th- and t9th-century additions on the N), the building may embody its medieval
predecessor. A weathered panel in the S wall bears the date 15 [ ] 8. About 1767 the Oswald burial-aisle was added to an existing N aisle. There are a number of 17th- and 18th- century gravestones on the Sand E sides of the church. About 1221 Walter Stewart granted the church to the Gilbertine House at Dalmilling (NS32SE 4) and at some time before
1238 it was regranted to Paisley Abbey.
RCAHMS 1985, visited (IMS) October 1985.
(Stat Acct., vii, 1793, 359; NSA, v, Ayr, 123; Paterson 1863-6, i, 659-60; Chalmers 1887-1902, vi, 514-15, 565, 826; Scott 1915-61, iii, 65; Strawhorn 1959, 267; Cowan 1967, 178).
