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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642126

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642126

HU56NE 15.00 55511 65489

HU56NE 15.01 c.555 654 Old Parish Church

(HU 5549 6549) RCAHMS mention the church on Kirkness under 'Sites'.

RCAHMS 1946

The present church at Kirkness, which is still in use, bears the dates 1867 and 1767 on its W and E gables respectively, but its date of erection could not be ascertained. According to local tradition it stands on the site of a pre-Reformation church.

Visited by OS (RL) 29 May 1968.

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