Desk Based Assessment
Event ID 701064
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/701064
NS39SE 1 36100 92865
For (associated) Luss parish manse (NS 3607 9291), see NS39SE 42.
(NS 3612 9286) Church (NR) (Ruins).
OS 6" map (1923)
(NS 3613 9286) Stone coffins found here (NAT)
OS 6" map (1860)
The church of Luss is first mentioned in the middle of the 13th century. The first post-Reformation church was built on the same site and the church of 1771 now stands a few feet from the remains of 'the old church'.
W Fraser 1869
The church is dedicated to St Kessog.
R Chalmers 1890
The present church of Luss was built in 1875 and succeeds a church opened for worship in 1771 which was erected on the site of a pre-Reformation chapel. A few yards from the east end of the church are the remains of a wall of rough stone masonry of of unknown date.
In the churchyard is a hog-backed stone and sepulchral monuments, some sculptured and of mediaeval and early post-Reformation date.
St Kessog is said to have been buried at Luss in the early part of the sixth century.
A D Lacaille 1925
Luss (Glasgow, Lennox). Both parsonage and vicarage were erected into a prebend of Glasgow cathedral by Bishop John Cameron c. 1430, the patronage remaining with the Colquhouns of Luss, as it did at the Reformation, while the cure was served by a vicar pensioner.
I B Cowan 1967.
Information from OS.
