Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702976

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS52SE 1 55136 21531

(NS 5514 2152) Church (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map (1967).

The roofless remains of this church consist of its walls, intact, with crow-stepped gables; the E gable is surmounted by a belfry. The side walls stand some 15ft high, while the ends are about 20ft high. Doors and windows, which are rectilinear, are filled in with stone and the interior is inaccessible. Over the W doorway is a lintel dated 1683. The church is in a fair state of preservation, with the Auchinleck burial vault adjoining on its N side.

Visited by OS (JLD) 18 June 1954

This church, now roofless and overgrown, was built in 1683; its latest renovation was in 1754, when Lord Auchinleck added an aisle to it and it was thoroughly repaired. It possibly occupies the site of the original parish church, first mentioned in 1238. It was superseded in 1843 by the present church (at NS 5517 2153). It is a small, rectangular building; at one side can be seen the stone in which the jougs were riveted. When the church became disused, the aisle which Lord Auchinleck had added became the family burial place.

H J Steven 1898; G Hay 1957

This former church, now roofed and extensively renovated, was opened as the Auchinleck Boswell Museum in August 1978. Otherwise, it is externally as described.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JRL) 23 October 1981