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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 706949
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/706949
NS93NE 2 9926 3949.
(NS 9926 3949) Church (NR) (Ruin).
OS 6" map, Lnarkshire, 2nd ed., (1912).
Quothquan church appears as a free parsonage in the mid-13th century, and seems to have continued unappropriated until the Reformation. In the 16th century it is rated along with the vicarage of Pencaithland, in the deanery of Lothian and diocese of St. Andrews.
It was used as a schoolroom after 1724, and later became a burying-place/mausoleum.
Wilson says the churchyard is circular, raised, and surrounded by a rampart and ditch, possibly pre-historic.
Orig Paroch Scot 1850; A Murray and G V Irving 1864; J A Wilson 1936-7.
All that probably remains of Quothquan church is the W gable, complete with belfry and bell, which forms the W wall of a family burial enclosure.
Wilson's 'rampart and ditch' is the old churchyard wall.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 22 January 1968.
