Archaeology Notes

Event ID 703914

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS74NW 4.00 74812 47011

NS74NW 4.01 NS 7478 4702 cist

(NS 7478 4702) St. Ninian's Church (NR) (Ruin)

(NS 7479 4701) Martyr's Tomb (NAT)

OS 6" map (1913)

All that remains of St Ninians Church is a gable end of a pre-Reformation Church and its foundations. Parish and churchyard were dedicated in the 9th c. to St Ninian.

J A Wilson 1936-7; Stonehouse Office Guide, undated

All that now remains of St Ninian's Church is the west gable-end which stands to its full height and is complete with bell-turret . The martyr's Tomb commemmorates the death of James Thomson who was shot in an encounter at Drumclog June 1st 1679.

Visited by OS (AC) 23 June 1959.