Archaeology Notes

Event ID 672133

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NK04NW 4 03744 47226

For (adjacent, successor and present) Longside Parish Church, see NK04NW 30.

(NK 0374 4722) Church (NAT) (In Ruins)

OS 6" map, (Aberdeenshire), 1st ed., 1872

The parish church of Longside was built in AD 1619-20, and was superseded in 1835 by the present church (NSA 1845). It was roofless in 1892. There is a lych-gate to the churchyard with a finial dated 1705, but the gate is probably earlier (MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92).

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (Rev J Imray-1842); D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

The church still stands, roofless, and measures internally 22.2m by 6.8m with walls 0.9m thick. The W gable has a bird cage bell-cote and round-arched entrance, probably the original. The lych gate with date stone still remains. The modern church to the N, and graveyard are still in use.

Visited by OS (RL) 19 December 1968.