Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654056
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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ND15NW 6 13517 59705.
(ND 1352 5969) Church (NAT) on Site of (NAT) Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
The present parish church is built on the site of an old chapel, but no information can be had in this neighbourhood in connection with it. Part of the ruins were standing when the church was built.
Name Book 1872
Halkirk church, built in 1753 and repaired in 1833, is a good example of a Georgian T-plan church, though it has been much altered internally and now appears to be quietly decaying.
G Hay 1957
(ND 1352 5969 Abbey Church (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1970)
Abbey Church, now disused, is as described above. It has been superseded as a place of worship by the church at ND 1300 5942. No further information regarding the old chapel was found.
Visited by OS (J B) 23 December 1981
Abbey Church, Halkirk. Georgian T-plan church built in 1753, repaired in 1833.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995.