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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 703913
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/703913
NS74NW 2 73209 47006
(NS 7320 4700) Church (NR) (Ruins)
OS 6" map (1913)
(NS 7320 4699) Martyr's Tomb (NAT)
OS 6" map (1898)
A half-mile to the east of Glasford are remains of the old church of 1633.
F H Groome 1883; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845
The western gable and belfry of an old church, probably not the original building, stand in the churchyard to the east of Glasford. A church is mentioned in 1278. There is a Martyr's Tomb in the burial ground - 'William Gordon of Earlston, shot in 1679'.
J A Wilson 1936-7
The west gable and belfry, of rubble masonry approximately 1.0 metre thick, still stand, together with part of the return of the north wall 4.0 metres long and 3.0 metres high. The Martyr's Tomb still stands.
Visited by OS (JFC) 26 February 1954.
