Archaeology Notes
Event ID 679692
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NN91NE 41.03 99543 18682
For present parish church of Findo Gask (NO 0024 2016), see NO02SW 16.
(NN 9954 1868) Chapel on site of Church (NR)
OS 6" map, (1958)
A private chapel built c. 1840 on the site of the old parish church of Findo Gask which was pulled down c. 1800 by Laurence Oliphant, 8th Laird. The first record of family burial in the Kirk of Gask, was of Laurence Oliphant, the first Laird of Gask, who died 22nd July 1632. Name Book 1864; E M Graham 1910.
There are no traces of the old church. The chapel is in occasional use.
Visited by OS (W D J) 18 August 1967.