Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729338

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/729338

NX68SW 7 61880 81180.

(NX 6188 8118) Kenmures Aisle (NR).

OS 6" map (1853)

Dalry parish church, dedicated to St John, was built in 1829-31, occupying the greater part of the site of its predecessor, of which only the roofless S transepted aisle remains, at the SE corner of the present church. A panel bearing an illegible date, said to be 1546, is fixed to its S gable; the associated arms are probably of Gordon of Kenmure, whose family used this for burials. It was restored in 1939.

RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; W Galloway 1897; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897; SDD List

The Aisle (name not verified), generally as described and planned, is a roofless rectangular building 6.8m by 5.7m over walling 0.7m thick. The coat of arms on the plaque set high up in the crowstepped south gable end can still be identified. The interior is paved and a tablet on the east wall is inscribed "This aisle and the vaults below were built by Sir James and Lady Gordon. 1546. Restored by their descendants Charles and Jean Forbes - 1939".

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (TRG) 10 February 1978