Archaeology Notes

Event ID 730277

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX97NW 9 9305 7703.

(NX 9305 7703) Aisle of Old Church (NR) Graveyard (1568)

OS 6" map (1854)

The 'queir' (quire) of Terregles was built as a family mortuary chapel by the fourth Lord Herries in 1585, the date over the S doorway. It was renovated in 1875, its window mullions and roof being renewed, and buttresses added. Its W end is attached to the present Terregles parish church, built in 1799 possibly on the foundations of an older building. G Hay 1957; RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911

The stone forming the step at the door of the 'Queir' is a fragment of a grave-slab, bearing an incised cross-shaft on a stepped base.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897

As described above. Nothing was seen to suggest the date 1568 (and no information was obtained from the relevant ONB). The church is still

in use.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 1 July 1964