Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729118

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY09SW 4 04125 90312

(NY 0412 9030) Garvald Church (NR)

(Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1957).

Location formerly entered as NY 0412 9030 and NY 04127 90301.

This church is some 60ft. 4in. long and 22ft. 3in. broad externally, walls 3 to 4ft. thick. The date 1617 is cut in the lintel of the W entrance. Said to have been rebuilt in 1617, the church was allowed to fall into ruin when the parish of Garrel (G Chalmers 1890), Garwald (G Chalmers 1890), Garvald was annexed to Kirkmichael in 1660. The churchyard is stone-walled.

NSA 1841; RCAHMS 1920.

As described. To be revised by field surveyor.

Visited by OS (D W R) 10 October 1972.

Garvald Church (remains of)

Graveyard [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, August 2009.