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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 731312
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/731312
NY26NW 4.01 2304 6596
(NY 23046596) St. Marjory's Church (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1945)
The pre-Reformation church, traditionally dedicated to St. Marjory, was taken down when the present parish church (NY26NW 4.00) was built in 1793. It stood in the churchyard, about a chain south of, and immediately behind, the present church.
Name Book 1857
Three richly-carved coped stones, some 40 feet to the south of the east end of the parish church are said to mark the graves of the English commanders killed at the battle at Swordwell (NY26NW 3) and appear to be older than 1350. They are close to the spot where the east gable of the old church must have stood.
RCAHMS 1920; J Anderson 1875
Dornock (Glasgow, Annandale). A parsonage in Bagimond, the church remained unappropriated, although an attempt, apparently ineffective, was made to unite the church to Holmcultram by virtue of a grant made by Edward Baliol as King of Scots and confirmed to the abbey for twelve years by John, bishop of Glasgow (1333x35). The patronage of the church had passed to the earls of Douglas by the 15th century, but was granted in 1411 by Earl Archibald to Simon of Carruthers with whose family it remained until the early 16th century. It then passed, apparently by marriage, to the Carlyles of Torthorwald, with whom it remained at the Reformation.
I B Cowan 1967.
No remains of the pre-Reformation church exist. The three stones are still in the graveyard.
Visited by OS (RD) 17 October 1967
