Archaeology Notes

Event ID 706084

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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(NS 8878 4325) St Kentigern's Church (NR) (Ruin)

OS 6" map (1941)

The ancient Parish Church of Lanark was dedicated to St Kentigern and was granted in 1150 by David I to the monastery at Dryburgh, with whom it remained until the Reformation. The architecture of the present church is 13th century and the site is known to have been occupied by a previous church.

The building was in ruins by the middle of the 18th century, and in 1834 consisted of six fine Gothic arches supporting a wall which seems to have separated the body of the church from a side aisle, along its whole length.

NSA 1845 (W Menzies); G V Irving and A Murray 1864; G Chalmers 1890.

The remains of the church consist of the six arches and east, west and south walls, the latter containing lancet windows. The six arches fell in 1954, and were rebuilt that year.

Visited by OS (JFC) 25 March 1955