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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 730407
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/730407
NX99SW 22 90375 92318
(NX 9037 9230) Church (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1957).
For present parish church, immediately to the S see NX99SW 54.
The remains of the former parish church, rebuilt in 1741 incorporating the remains of its predecessor (R M F Watson 1901), and in use until 1878 when its successor (at NX 9037 9227) was built.
Norman fragments survive and a 10th.c Anglian cross-shaft (now in Dumfries Museum) and a grave-slab of similar date, preserved in the porch of the modern church in 1920, but now also in Dumfries Museum, are probably from this site, although located only to Closeburn.
The remains consist of an E gable wall 30' long and 3' thick with an arched and moulded doorway, a circular window and a belfry with a 1606 bell. Parts of the N and S walls, 2'6" thick, also remain. There was a N transept.
"Closeburn" was in 1200 "Kylosbern", said to be a commemoration of an English saint, but Osbran was an Irish bishop and anchorite who died in 752.
RCAHMS 1920; W G Collingwood 1926; W J Watson 1926; R Cramp 1961; A E Truckell 1964.
