Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715697

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT36SE 6.00 38082 61614

(NT 3809 6160) Crichton Kirk (NAT)

Formerly Crichton Collegiate Church AD 1449 (NR)

OS 6" map (1966).

NT36SE 6.01 NT 38083 61580 Churchyard

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the church as 'A cruciform stone edifice in an antique style of architecture and dating prior to 1449 at which period it was made a "Collegiate Church" by Sir W Crichton, Lord Chancellor of Scotland it is still the parish work and contains 600 sitiings, but its audience seldom numbers over 100. The parishoners being mostly Free Church and other kinds of dissenters'.

Name Book 1852.

Crichton Collegiate Church was founded by William, Lord Crichton on the 26th December 1449, in the parish church. After the Reformation, the building was unusable (see NT36SE 4) but was re-created the parish church in 1641. It was thoroughly restored in 1898.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1915; D E Easson 1957.

Crichton Kirk, as described, is in normal use.

Visited by OS (BS), 24 October 1975.