Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731027

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY17NW 5 12705 75678

(NY 1270 7568) St Mungo's Church (NR).

(Remains of).

OS 6" map (1957)

For successor parish churches of St Mungo (NY 1426 7728 and 1433 7707), see NY17NW 30 and NY17NW 43 respectively.

For adjacent manse, see NY17NW 52.

Abermelk was a mensal kirk of the Archbishop of Glasgow. The parish name was changed in the 17th century to that of its patron saint. There was a Well of Our Lady.

H Scott 1915-61

Rebuilt, repaired and modernised (NSA 1845), or built (G Chalmers 1890), in 1754, only the east gable of the chancel remained in 1912. The church was confirmed to the Bishop of Glasgow in 1174 by the Bruces.

RCAHMS 1920

The remains of this church appear to consist of the east gable, the south walls and the east half of the north wall. It is impossible to distinguish whether the north and south walls (now c. 2.0m high) are later than the east gable (still standing to roof height).

Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 June 1966

Castlemilk (Glasgow, Annandale). Also known as Abermilk and latterly as St Mungo, the Glasgow Inquest c. 1120 recorded 'Abermelc' as one of the possessions of the see, while in 1170 the church of 'Casthelmilc' was confirmed to the bishop of Glasgow. Disputes, however, between bishops and family of Bruce took place over certain churches in Annandale, and at settlement c. 1187x89, the donation of the church was confirmed to the bishops of Glasgow with whom patronage henceforth remained, the church itself remaining an independent parsonage.

I B Cowan 1967.