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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 692313
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692313
NO86NW 1 80438 69251
NO86NW 7.00 80489 69215 Manse
Benholm parish church, dedicated to St Marnoch is an old irregular Gothic building. The former choir at the E end has long been 'used as a burial place. The remains of a font are...at one of the church doors, and other relics of superstition, which evidently show that the whole has been built before the Reformation'.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1795; H Scott 1925
The church described in the OSA was taken down in 1832. Two monuments from the burial aisle of the old church are built into the wall of the new church (at NO 8044 6925).
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845
The recorded information and the presence of 18th century tombstones in the churchyard indicate that the present church is on or near the site of the pre-Reformation church.
Visited by OS (NKB) 22 December 1967
