Archaeology Notes

Event ID 680348

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN95SW 15 9128 5448

The remains of an old church exist a little above Tullypowrie farmstead on the W side of Tullypowrie Burn where the track from Pitlochry to Strathtay begins to descend the hill by the burnside. Its site is clearly marked by the remains of walls on a flat ledge above where the church mill formerly stood. At the E end of the church is a loose stone bearing a roughly incised cross on both sides.

J H Dixon 1925

('A': NN 9128 5447) Traditional site of religious house.

('B': NN 9132 5450) Cross-slab.

Information from M E C Stewart 1964

The scant remains of this church survive at NN 9128 5448, oriented ENE-WSW. The E gable (6.2m wide and 0.85m thick) survives to a height of 0.8m, and a few stones of the S wall under the turf indicate a length of at least 9.2m, although the true length cannot be obtained. The cross slab, as illustrated (on OS card), stands on top of the E gable.

The church stands on the N side of a ruinous hamlet of four houses with a corn drying kiln, and 40.0m N is a dry mill dam, which supplied water to a mill now down to its foundation some 40.0m E.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (A A) 18 March 1975

One unroofed, three roofed buildings and one enclosure are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet xxxix). One unroofed building annotated as the remains of a church is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 21 October 1997.