Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670540

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ80NE 12.00 87172 09470

NJ80NE 12.01 87172 09448 Burial-ground

For present parish church of Newhills (NJ 8760 0945), see NJ80NE 55.

(NJ 8717 0947) Church (NR) (In Ruins)

OS 6" map (1902)

In 1663 George Davidson of Pettens erected a chapel of ease about five miles from St Machar. In 1666 the chapel became the parish church of the newly established parish of Newhills and continued in use until the new church was erected in 1830.

NSA 1845

The remains of this church measure 20.0m E-W by 7.5m N-S. A portion of the north wall, 11.7m long, has been entirely removed. On the inside of the south wall there is a plaque bearing an inscription which confirms the above historical account.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 26 October 1961.

(Additional bibliography cited).

NMRS, MS/712/75.