Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710900

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT15SW 9 1496 5166.

(NT 1495 5166) Church (NR) (Site of).

OS 25" map (1856)

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey (ONB) describes this as ' The site of this old parish church of Linton is situated in the middle of the present graveyard. It was pulled down and the present one was built in the same year (1782). The old church was very well decorated and had several statues of Saints etc, but were all destroyed when the present church was erected: the heritors of this time ordered them all to be defaced and built into the walls so as not to be seen , but when the new church was completed they had it roughcast so as to cover any portions of the statues that might be visible'.

Name Book 1854

The old church of West Linton, known to have existed since at least the 12th century, stood in the present graveyard, near the Spittalhaugh burial-aisle, where a slight mound can be seen (J Buchan 1927).

It was demolished in 1781-2 (Orig Paroch Scot 1851), when its masonry was found to incorporate a number of carved stones, some evidently of medieval date (OSA 1791).

The modern church, erected in 1781, was drastically re-modelled in 1871.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1963

There is a general rise within the graveyard on which the Spittalhaugh burial aisle, at NT 1497 5167, is situated. The precise site of the old church cannot be determined.

Visited by OS (JP) 26 June 1970