Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692091

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO77SW 16 71811 71625

(NO 7180 7162) Ch (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1971)

The parish church of Laurencekirk (formerly known as Conveth) comes on record in the reign of William the Lion (1165-1214); it was dedicated to St Laurence. A church, erected in 1626, was demolished in 1804 to make way for the present building. At that time, stones, apparently older than the building, were found in the walls. They included stones or a stone on which was carved the figure of a man lying on a gridiron, supposedly representing the martyrdom of St Laurence. Some of the stones were inserted in the walls of the new church (NSA 1845).

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; W R Fraser 1880; RCAHMS 1982.

The present church, still in use, was built in 1804 and restored in 1895. No further information.

Visited by OS (R L) 12 December 1967.